On 14/09/2012, at 1:39 PM, Severin Crisp <sevcr...@westnet.com.au> wrote:
> In Safari, when I right click on a graphic linked to a PDF I do not get the > PDF. A normal click displays the PDF in Safari and I can then save it from > the pop up controls at the bottom. With links to files other than PDFs I get > the usual Download Linked File option. Is there a way around this so that > PDFs behave like other files? > Severin Crisp It is in the nature of OS X to deal with PDFs in a different way from other file formats, given the intrinsic way that Display PDF forms the backbone of OS X's display system. Generally, when you click on a PDF in Safari, the PDF itself will open directly in the Safari space (unless you have the Adobe Reader plugin installed, in which case you can stop reading now). As you have noted, there is an option to roll the mouse over the bottom of the screen to display an Icon bar which gives you, amount other things, the ability to download the PDF, and as Ronni has noted, the contextual popup menu gives you extra options as well. There is a third way if all you want is to save the PDF: simply go to the File Menu in Safari and choose Save As... Normally this would give you the choices of saving the page source or saving as a Web Archive, but in the case of a PDF, you are not given any choices: you simply save the open PDF file to a location of your choice. Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 046 948 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
