[Macpartners] open pdfs in adobe not browser window

Justin Anderson jander at MIT.EDU
Tue Aug 21 09:44:27 EDT 2007


Enter this in Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitOmitPDFSupport -bool YES

...and then relaunch Safari.

You can undo this by repeating the above with NO instead of YES

Justin Anderson
Macintosh Developer - ISDA
Information Services and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
jander at mit.edu


On Aug 21, 2007, at 9:29 AM, Karen Johnson wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> We would like to be able to click on a pdf link in Safari and have
> the pdf open in adobe, not the browser window.
>
> Is there a way to do that? I tried changing a few settings but have
> not found the answer yet.
>
> We have OS X.4.10 and Adobe reader 7.0.5.
>
> thank you,
>
> karen




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