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I am still fairly new to MAC, but I had been using adobe as my default pdf. At some point it was updated I no longer able to save pdf's from the internet to my computer and when they do save they are blank pages. Any help?
 

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How about telling us which browser you're using and its version?
 

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In order to open a PDF with Safari: Right click on the PDF, select download as link. Go to your downloads folder and double click the PDF, it will open. You can also save it to your documents folder or another location.
 
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Let me try and phrase it differently. I tried what you said and it saved it as a website not a pdf. Lets say for instance I want to look and save a pdf on medical protocols. I google. that and a website: http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA480272, comes up, I like it and I want to save it, or any pdf maybe from a medical journal. I go to file, save as, and try to save it as a pdf to my desktop and get this message:The document “2009_uniform_poster.pdf” could not be exported as “2009_uniform_poster”.
So then I've read that sometimes you can hit print and a screen will come up and you can actually end up previewing it in pdf and then save to your computer however sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. Now I've just done this last part and it saved a blank pdf document to my desktop. I'm trying to save the actual pdf not a website so that when I'm somewhere where there is no internet service I can pull up the document.
 

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I just tried it with the link you gave. That PDF can not be saved to file from Safari unless it shows up as a link on a separate page. The method I gave you works with Safari but the link has to be separate from the page or the entire web page gets saved.

By the way, the link you posted saves perfectly fine when using Chrome. I tested it there also.

I'll dig around and see if I can find a plug in for Safari which will make it easier to download those types of PDF files. Or you can try using Chrome. Chrome can be downloaded free from the Google main page.
 
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I thank you if you can find a plug in. Not sure why all the sudden it no longer works the way it did unless it is for monetary gain. But I thank you none the less, last computer I had with google chrome I had nothing but glitches after updating so I'd prefer not to go that route if possible. Again Thanks
 

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You might try FireFox Web Browser.
 

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