As someone who hasn’t used a Windows desktop computer for several years, there are some nice features that I’ve forgotten even existed. One of them is viewing PDFs within a browser window.
My main work and home computers are OS X machines, so I spend most of my web browsing time using Safari. When I click on a link to a PDF, Safari downloads the PDF and then opens it in Preview. If I’m interested in saving the PDF, this is useful, but most of the time I don’t have an interest in reading the document more than once.
Enter the (free for educational and personal use) PDF browser plugin for Safari which allows PDF documents to be displayed inline within Safari. Now that I’m regularly using the plugin, I can’t believe that I forgot how convenient it is.
June 28th, 2005 at 2:08
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June 27th, 2006 at 22:28
Plugin works in Firefox great, but I can’t get it it to work in Safari. any ideas?
June 28th, 2006 at 9:31
Alan, I use Camino now so I hadn’t tried it with Safari for a while. I just opened Safari and it doesn’t seem to work for me either.
Maybe a Safari update has introduced some incompatibility?
It might be worth emailing the author.