[Macpartners] how to prevent Safari opening PDFs in browser?

[Albert Willis]

On Feb 13, 2007, at 12:09 PM, Gurukarm Khalsa wrote:

> I'd like PDFs to open in Acrobat when I click their links in  
> Safari; I used to be able to make them do so but in some recent  
> software update (I'm assuming) all of a sudden PDFs not only open  
> in a new Safari window, but the button bar normally seen in a  
> browser with PDFs (save, etc) has disappeared.
>
> I know that in full Acrobat, in Preferences -> Internet, one can  
> uncheck the "Display PDF in browser using: (dropdown choices)", and  
> I thought doing so prevented that action. However, I have it  
> unchecked, and have restarted both Safari and Acrobat, to no avail.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
> Gurukarm

 From the terminal, do this:

defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitOmitPDFSupport -bool YES



   -- Al


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