[X-Newbies] PDF files in a browser

[Michael Winter]

On Nov 13, 2006, at 1:33 PM, Al Poulin wrote:

> What version OS are you on?  Is there a particular reason you want  
> to use something else?

Yes! First, as far as I can tell, you can't save the PDF file from  
Safari (at least its not straight forward). 95% of the time I click  
on a pdf file, I want it downloaded and saved.

Second, IMO Safari is fine for very short (1-2 pages) documents, but  
it just doesn't work well for larger ones, at least the way I use  
them. First, I always have to zoom-in a couple times before anything  
is legible, navigation is much more difficult, and there's no search.

So I'm looking for a way to have Safari just open them up in Preview  
like it used to (or even Acrobat) instead of displaying them inline.  
In old browsers there used to be a preference pane where you could  
assign file types to specific applications. That's what's needed here  
for pdf files.

After re-reading, I'm wondering if one of us misunderstood. I read  
the OP as wanting Safari to behave as I described when you "browse"  
to a pdf file on the web. You seem to be describing opening a local  
file in a preferred app.

-Mike