Adobe PDF Plug-in Was [Re: [LINK] Re: executable content vs plain data]

[Roger Clarke]

At 12:50 +1100 20/1/08, Rick Welykochy wrote:
>If you have the Adobe PDF Viewer installed as a plug-in, that is an
>executable you presumably agreed to have installed in your browser.

Actually, no.  Well, not in the instance that keeps annoying me.

I use (among other things) Safari.

I occasionally receive a PDF that Mac's Preview can't handle.

By opening Adobe Acrobat 7.0 or Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0 in 
order to view such a PDF, the software makes changes to Safari 
causing it to install and/or activate the plug-in component within 
Safari.

That's emphatically not what I want.  I want to download PDFs and 
then use Preview (or other viewer) to look at them;  I do not want to 
display PDF in my browser window.

What's more, I need to open Adobe products sufficiently infrequently 
that I can never remember where to go to get rid of the plug-in (or 
at least suppress it firing up).


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