[X4U] Setting the default pdf reader

[Stroller]

Oh, please.

I don't want to have to closely inspect every link on the internet  
and click differently depending upon its suffix.

That is (duh!) what I'm doing at the moment.

I was hoping for a solution that would actually fix this problem.

Stroller.


On 2 Aug 2006, at 16:00, macsys at mac.com wrote:

> Just Control click on the link and download it
>
> On Aug 2, 2006, at 10:47 AM, Stroller wrote:
>
>>
>> On 2 Aug 2006, at 00:19, Eddie Hargreaves wrote:
>>> ...
>>> 2) If you click on a link to a PDF in a web browser, it will use  
>>> its helper
>>> settings to determine whether to open the pdf in the browser  
>>> window using a
>>> plug-in (Adobe, Apple) or to download the file and open it in a  
>>> separate
>>> application (Preview, Acrobat).
>>
>> Ok.. this bugs me. I have disabled the Adobe Acrobat plug-in for  
>> Safari but Safari still opens PDFs linked to on the web inside  
>> itself. I really hate this!! (but apparently not enough to work  
>> for myself out how to disable it!!)
>>
>> Safari is a web-browser, not a PDF reader!! And a large PDF can  
>> really slow Safari down in a way that it won't if it's downloaded  
>> separately and opened in Preview. What I'd really like is for a  
>> PDF to be downloaded to a temp directory or browser cache and  
>> opened in Preview from there. But I'd be happy to accept Safari's  
>> previous behaviour of downloading the PDF to the Desktop and  
>> opening it - does anyone know how to achieve this, please?
>>
>> Stroller.