On Thu, 20 May 2004 01:35:04 -0400 (EDT), Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > It would appear that on May 19, Gerry Tool did say: > > > C G wrote: > > > Hello - > > > > > > I have Adobe Acrobat 5 installed and working fine on my Fedora Core 2 > > > system. The Mozilla plug-in page shows the .pdf is enabled. When I click > > > on a .pdf link a blank page is presented. Acrobat does not open. Is > > > there a way to get Acrobat or another PDF reader to open when I click on > > > a .pdf hyperlink embedded in a web page? Any help on this is greatly > > > appreciated. > > > > > > Best regards - Chris > > > > > When I encounter a pdf in Mozilla, one of the choices it presents is to > > open it in the default app, ggv. If I select that, the pdf opens. This > > is a fresh install with no third party stuff added. > > > > Gerry Tool > > That may well depend on the link. I'm not an expert on that. But I do > have a relevant experiance... I use mostly mozilla And/or firefox > depending on my mood. [firefox has improved to the point where it's rare > to find a web page that it fails on anymore :) but I like having > alternatives so I still use mozilla.] > > Just like Gerry I have opened .pdf files with default app before (Though > in my case it wanted xpdf). But I also have an on-line banking accessible > account with my credit union. Where I'm supposed to be able to view > images of the checks posted to my account. Links to the images > appear in my on-line account details, But when I click on them I get > a nearly blank page with an icon, and a few words that claim my > image is loading... I have a broadband connection, But I waited like > I was still using a 14.4 dial-up connection... Then I click on the > the icon to get a message that the application/pdf can only be > viewed with the appropriate plugin... > > I've looked at this with both mozilla and firefox, and I can't remember > which one, but only one of them had a download plugin now button on the > message box. it lead (of course) to adobe, where if you followed the > trail to the linux version offered up an tarball that when examined > appeared to be the same ver 5.0.8 I get with the command "acroread" > I didn't see any point to messing with an rpm that yum keeps up to date > just to install a tarball, But I did find a readme file in this > v5.0.8 tarball that only talked about netscrape, it wanted version > 4.5 (or thereabouts) for crying out loud... I've looked at the > acroread menu choices and tried setting it's plugin support to > mozilla, But it didn't work. > > I suspect that when my bank set up the link to the pdf, that they > probably didn't quite follow the standards. And since my browser doesn't > do it exactly the same way as an outdated netscrape with official plugin > would have, I simply don't get access to the image. I bitched to the > banks email, but they have yet to reply. > > If anyone knows how to get mozilla to tell the bank it has the adobe > plugin, and then route the pdf to the default application. I'd love > to hear it <grin> > > - -- > | --- --- > | Joe (theWordy) Philbrook <o> <o> > | J(tWdy)P ^ > | <<jtwdyp@xxxxxxxx>> /---\ "bla bla bla..." > | \___/ "...and bla..." > I'm not sure whether this would be relevent. But I think the launch of Pdf's are a result of the file type settings. I noticed that most config's are setup to use XPDF as default. But if it has been removed (or not installed for that matter), then one gets a blank page. As I don't use xpdf etc, and only Acrobat, I remove all the other entries and leave acoread in it's place. With that done, any links to pdf's launch acroread without problems. Wolf -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org)
