PDF Browser Plugin

What is this?

The PDF Browser Plugin allows web browsers to display and print PDF documents. This allows you to preview PDF documents before downloading them to disk, and enables your web browser to display embedded PDF.
In cases where the Save and Print commands are not available from the browser menu (for embedded PDF for example) the plugin's menu button can be used.

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The PDF Browser Plugin menu button

How is it installed?

If you are an admin of your computer:

1) Locate the folder /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/
To do so double click your hard disk (boot volume), double click the folder Library, then double click the folder Internet Plug-Ins.
2) Move the file PDF Browser Plugin into the folder Internet Plug-Ins.
3) Restart your web browser.

If you don't have admin privileges, i. e. you are a regular user:

1) Locate the folder ~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/
To do so open a new Finder window and click the home icon in the toolbar, then double click the Library folder inside your home folder. There might not yet be a Internet Plug-Ins folder inside your home folder's Library folder. If so, just create one with exactly this name.
2) Move the file PDF Browser Plugin into this Internet Plug-Ins folder.
3) Restart your web browser.

Keyboard commands

  ⇡ ⃣		scroll up one line
  ⇣ ⃣		scroll down one line
  ⇞ ⃣or ⇧ ⃣	⃣	scroll up one page
  ⇟ ⃣or    ⃣		scroll down one page
 ⌥ ⃣ ⇠ ⃣		previous page
 ⌥ ⃣ ⇢ ⃣		next page
 ↖ ⃣		go to start of the document
 ↘ ⃣		go to end of the document
 + ⃣		zoom in
  - ⃣		zoom out

You might need to click into the document before you can use the keyboard commands.

Printing PDFs out of the PDF Browser Plugin

To print PDFs out of the PDF Browser Plugin choose the Print command in the PDF Browser Plugin menu. Some browsers might also allow to print using the standard Print command in the File menu. The PDF Browser Plugin adds custom printing options to the print dialog. These settings allow you to choose between printing pages scaled to the page width or at original size and orientation, and limit printing to odd or even pages only. To change the PDF Browser Plugin print settings select PDF Browser Plugin from the printing options popup menu in the print dialog.
You can control and change the page format with the Page Setup command in the PDF Browser Plugin menu. The page setup of the browser has no effect on the plugin.

This software is provided as is and without any guarantee.

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