Just ran into an issue that is a bit frustrating, but It is not really a bug in the traditional sense. Perhaps it can be considered a bug in the ecosystem. A while back I somehow landed on the opportunity to download Adobe Reader for my iMac. In a moment of weakness, I accepted the offer. After all, it promised all kinds of pdf manipulations that might come in handy in a dark alley on a moonless night.
Ever since then, Internet pdfs handled in a Safari window were secretly under the control of Adobe's Reader, and not Apple's Preview. This had a couple of detrimental effects. The most annoying one was that if you tried to print using Apple's Print command under the File menu, you were presented with a mysterious blank page, and if you followed through, a blank sheet of paper in your printer's output tray. The other annoyance was the inability to right click the pdf page and choose Open in Preview from the popup menu. Preview is much more versatile on displaying pdfs than Safari.
Tonight, after months of putting it off, I finally took the time to figure out how to exorcise Adobe Reader from my Safari browser. I simply had to go to Macintosh HD/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ and remove 2 files, AdobePDFViewer.plugin and AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin, from the folder. I had a Disabled Plug-Ins folder and kept copies in it 'just in case.'
Now Safari is back to handling pdfs the way Apple intended. |
