On Monday 19 November 2007, Paul Johnson wrote: >On Nov 19, 2007 10:30 AM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> I have NDI how it came to be FF-2.0.0.9's fav pdf renderer, it didn't show >> in an about:config, nor did it show up in the kde file associations, all >> of which were set to use acroread for viewing a pdf. >> >> But somehow, firefox seemed to think it had to use evince, which worked >> fairly well & fast, but just one HUGE problem. All the characters were >> rendered in the correct left to right order, but they were mirrored right >> to left! Veddy difficult to read needless to say. >> >> -- >> Cheers, Gene >> = > >I've had the same experience. Here's the magic bullet. > >While reading the fedora list a while ago, Aaron Konstam posted a great tip. > > >"But to do what you want got to: about:config >Change: >browser.download.hide_plugins_without_extensions to false > >The in: Edit->Preferences->Content->Manage you can make firefox any >program you want to open pdf files." > > Got it thanks to a previous message from Claude, thanks Paul. >-- >Paul E. Johnson >Professor, Political Science >1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 >University of Kansas -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) It's faster horses, Younger women, Older whiskey and More money. -- Tom T. Hall, "The Secret of Life"
