[X4U] Disable opening PDFs within Safari ??

Allan Hise allan at hise.org
Tue May 24 23:05:26 PDT 2005



On Tue, 24 May 2005, John Bryan wrote:

> One of the things it seems is new in Tiger's Safari is that PDF docs
> open up WITHIN Safari's window.  I have to work with windows at work
> and I really hate this behavior.  I finally figured out how to change
> the behavior in windows so that the PDFs open in a separate PDF
> reader app window instead of IE, but I'm not seeing how to change
> this in Safari/Preview/Tiger.

There is no easy 1-step process that I can see, however you can open the
PDF in safari, then ctrl/right-click on the PDF in safari and there is an
option to open it in Preview, along with zoom and a couple other things.

Allan



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