[G4] Downloading PDFs

[Alastair W.Hendrie]

I agree that's what used to happen. But now, the pdf opens in a browser 
window within Safari (v 1.3), and it isn't saved on the desktop. I 
think it's a new function of Acrobat Reader, which is installed if you 
have updated it recently.

Alastair
On 31 May 2005, at 00:33, Al Poulin wrote:

> I have Safari 1.2.4 with Panther.  Upon download with Safari, PDFs 
> usually open automatically in Preview, and the .pdf file remains on 
> the Desktop.
>
> Is this the same as with Safari 1.3?
>
> With Tiger's Safari, are we talking about something different?  Will 
> the .pdf file disappear upon closing the window as used to happen all 
> too often with Internet Explorer?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Al Poulin
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>
> On May 30, 2005, at 10:06 AM, Alastair W.Hendrie wrote:
>
>> My version of Safari is 1.3 and the pdf's open in it.
>>
>> Alastair.
>>
>> On 30 May 2005, at 02:23, Kunga wrote:
>>
>>> Just option click the link and it will download in Tiger's Safari. 
>>> Tiger's Safari is now opening PDFs in the browser. It's not about 
>>> the reader version. It's a change in Safari 2.0.
>>>
>>> k
>>>
>>> On May 29, 2005, at 3:47 PM, Alastair W.Hendrie wrote:
>>>
>>>> Have you updated Adobe Acrobat Reader recently? The latest version 
>>>> seems to open pdf's in a browser window (in my case Safari) instead 
>>>> of downloading them and then opening them in the stand alone 
>>>> program.
>>>>
>>>> You can force the download by control-clicking the file icon, which 
>>>> brings up a window where one of the options is "download linked 
>>>> file"
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Alastair.
>>>
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