[X4U] Safari question

[Daly Jessup]

At 10:16 PM +0100 27/9/06, Michel Treisman wrote:
>Thanks to all  the kind folks who replied to my original post.  I 
>received good advice: to reinstall Adobe Reader.  I reinstalled 
>Reader and now if I click on a pdf file online, it opens in a Safari 
>window, and I can then download it to my desktop.  I can live with 
>that, it is better than before.
>>
>If I control click on the pdf URL,  I have the options of 'Open 
>Link' and 'Download linked file'.  Open Link opens the file in a 
>browser window. 'Download linked file'  does nothing. - If I open 
>the Downloads Window, it is quite empty.  But choosing Open Link, 
>and then Saving the file is a good-enough work-around.

Did you try my suggestion of Option-clicking on the link to the PDF? 
It's instant gratification: it just starts downloading.

Daly
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