Hello,
I don't know if I can be of help, as I use Tiger, but when I have
trouble downloading pdf files, I use the following work-arounds:
The first of these involves positioning the cursor over the download
icon, turning off voiceover, and clicking on the icon with the mouse.
After 30 seconds or so, I hit Command-S to save, turn on voiceover,
move the cursor to the Save button, turn off voiceover, and click
save with the mouse. I do these things because Safari freezes up if I
try to download pdf files without first turning off voiceover.
The second work-around is to allow safari to download the pdf file.
After that, I bring up the print dialogue, click on preview to launch
it, and save the pdf file from within preview.
As I noted above, neither of these options may be useful or relevant
to you if you don't use Tiger.
Cordially,
Rafael Bejarano
The
On Jun 2, 2008, at 12:30 PM, Simon Cavendish wrote:
Dear Listers,
I've just subscribed to a professional journal on the Web. The
website gives me access to regular issues of a bulletin in PDF
format. I can find the link which is the title of the current
issue. I click on it with VO+spacebar and then I hit a problem. I
get a message from Safari that it cannot find an apropriate PDF
reader to open the page. I am presented with a dialogue from which
to choose a compatible reader but I cannot find it in the list
applications. In my case, I use Preview but I cannot see it in the
dialogue that Safari offers me. And yet, Preview is definitely
there in my list of Applications folder. Ideally, I don't really
want to open the file on the web, I ideally want to download it
into a folder on my computer. However, clicking on the title of the
bulletin does not give me an option to download the PDF file. On
the windows side, I can right click on the title in IE6 and choose
save target as... But in Safari, I don't know how to do it. Can
anyone give me some clues as to how to achieve my purpose? Why
doesn't safari recognise Preview as a legitimate PDF reader?
Many thanks in advance.
Simon
