Chrome natively displays PDFs within the browser. Sometimes, I want to save a copy of the displayed PDF locally on my drive. How do I do that? I tried doing "Save Page as ..." but that didn't work.
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4It should work. Just tested it on my machine. Both Chrome 8 and 9, on Mac, with a PDF, both using File » Save Page as... and right-click » Save As... -- Have you tried another PDF document, if maybe the web server is not available right now, or it's an issue with a specific document? What OS do you use? – Daniel Beck Jan 02 '11 at 18:29
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1You are right. Sorry, I must have done something wrong the 10 previous times I attempted it. – Shane Jan 02 '11 at 18:32
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4Sarcasm, or does it work all of a sudden? – Daniel Beck Jan 02 '11 at 18:33
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http://superuser.com/questions/107700/how-to-disable-automatic-opening-of-pdf-files-in-chrome-closed Try: "Open chrome://plugins/ in the browser and disable the PDF Viewer plugin." hth – nc3b Jan 02 '11 at 18:59
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@Daniel Beck: sorry wasn't trying to be sarcastic. It works. – Shane Jan 02 '11 at 21:52
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@Daniel Beck: this is not working consistently. I open http://someserver/doc.pdf. Chrome displays the PDF. I right click the center of the PDF doc and I see "Save as". I click that option and nothing happens. Any idea what's going on here? – Shane Jan 08 '11 at 22:35
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Is it document-dependent? If yes, please provide the URL of one such document. – Daniel Beck Jan 09 '11 at 08:31
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You can hit Ctrl+S (Cmd+S on a Mac).
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It's the shortcut for the Save Page As... menu entry which he mentioned didn't work. – Daniel Beck Jan 02 '11 at 20:20
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I'm on the Windows version and it works fine when there's no menu entry to save it. – digitxp Jan 02 '11 at 20:32
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You cannot , You have to install an extension such as https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/kpdjmbiefanbdgnkcikhllpmjnnllbbc
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