Matthew Miller wrote:
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 05:51:17PM +0000, WipeOut wrote:
Personally, I hate the acrobat plugin. I have no need to have other apps
running inside my browser window -- just send me the PDF, and I'll look at
it in the appropriate application.
Thats really doing things the hard way.. So many sites use PDF's now for
brochures and docs and various other things that to have it just open in
the browser really makes it simple and quick..
Except for the part where the browser becomes unreactive while this foreign
viewer is trying to load its data (maybe crashing the whole thing). I think
it's simpler and quicker to have the dedicated application come up.
I hear you on that one. I hate reading PDFs in a web browser and get
annoyed at sites that don't warn you that the link you are about to
click on is a PDF file.
Anyway, my point isn't really to argue over this preference, but to explain
why it's nice to have the plugin separate -- it makes it an option
As a side note Acrobat for X is just plain ugly. Before I disabled PDF
plugins entirely I believe I was using GPDF to view PDF files within
Firefox it worked great and looked much better than Acrobat Reader.
Just my $.02
Scott
