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Is it possible to annotate PDFs displayed in Safari browser (setting Preview as the default viewer)?
P5music
Posted 2011-12-13T12:59:44.620
Reputation: 279
PDFs in Safari - Can they be annotated (setting Preview as the default viewer)?
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There is no special "Preview plugin" for Safari.
Safari – just like Preview.app – uses PDF Kit, an OS X framework, to display PDFs. However, Safari can not create annotations on these PDFs, as it just doesn't have the implementation for creating annotations. Apple would have to re-program Safari to add these features and the necessary interface for Safari to edit PDF documents.
Or you'd need to use another plugin that actually provides this functionality (none that I know of).
slhck
Posted 2011-12-13T12:59:44.620
Reputation: 182 472
What do you mean? PDFs in Preview can be annotated. In Safari, they can't. What does setting Preview as the default viewer have to do with it, then? – slhck – 2011-12-13T13:50:12.263
if Adobe plugin is not used I hoped that the Preview plugin was used instead, and so be able to annotate – P5music – 2011-12-13T15:52:22.743
The default Safari PDF plugin is not the same as the whole Preview.app. While OS X's PDF Kit supports annotations, Safari doesn't have the UI to actually create them.
– slhck – 2011-12-13T16:02:36.410Do you mean it is not possible because Safari use webkit? Isn't possible to force it to use a Preview plugin? – P5music – 2011-12-13T16:07:49.477
There is no Preview plug-in. You can always disable PDF support in Webkit by running the following command in Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitOmitPDFSupport -bool YESAccessing a PDF in Safari will then just download it instead of displaying it in PDF. Safari is a viewer, so you cannot edit (and save) anything. It just doesn't fit with the rest of the behavior of the program. – Daniel Beck – 2012-07-14T12:48:00.103