On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 13:38 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 19:00 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Thursday 21 May 2009 13:36:10 Mike Burger wrote: > > > > On Thu, 21 May 2009, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > > >> Hello, > > > >> > > > >> 90% of the time when I open a pdf file from firefox the document > > > >> does not appear in the right window (I mean not in the firefox window, > > > >> but > > > >> in side any window), ie that I do not have any control > > > >> on the document position !! > > > >> How can it be fixed ? > > > > > > > > In fact the problem comes from evince > > > > > > My understanding is that evince does not operate as a plugin, as the Adobe > > > Acrobat reader can/does (at least, under Windows). > > > > > > If you can find a PDF reader that can act as a plugin to firefox, under > > > Linux, you should be able to accomplish what you want to do. > > > > > Okular is a multi-format reader and works as a plugin. It is a kde > > application, so will require some libraries. > > I use Okular, but it doesn't embed the doc in a FF tab. It opens a new > tab (my FF is set to open new pages in a separate tab) and then displays > the doc in its own window outside FF. The new tab is empty and useless. > I don't know if any of this is configurable. ---- My experience with Adobe_Reader_enu suggests that this is preferred behavior because it operates in its own memory space instead of within Firefox which has been problematic. I have been known to install Adobe_Reader and remove the FF plugin just to get that behavior. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
