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Is it possible to annotate PDFs displayed in Safari browser (setting Preview as the default viewer)?

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  • 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
    Dec 13, 2011 at 13:50
  • if Adobe plugin is not used I hoped that the Preview plugin was used instead, and so be able to annotate
    – P5music
    Dec 13, 2011 at 15:52
  • 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
    Dec 13, 2011 at 16:02
  • Do you mean it is not possible because Safari use webkit? Isn't possible to force it to use a Preview plugin?
    – P5music
    Dec 13, 2011 at 16:07
  • 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 YES Accessing 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
    Jul 14, 2012 at 12:48

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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).

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