On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 20:31 +0100, Peter Vollebregt wrote:
elefino wrote:
On Sunday 30 October 2005 08:19, Ken Schneider responded to Art Fore:
problem. If I go to http://www.usdf.org/pdf/convention/2005RegistrationRegisInfo.pdf I get a blank page after the file is downloaded on one machine, the other is OK. Both machines are configured the same except Firefox does not show PDF in preferences, downloads,files types
I would have a look at the plug-ins you have and make you have acrobat installed as one of them. If installed properly it will not ask you to download the pdf it will do so on its own and open the pdf in the browser. How to check: Type in firefox as URL 'about:plugins' and see of pdf is available. In my version it says: Adobe Reader 7.0 Bestandsnaam: nppdf.so The Adobe Reader plugin is used to enable viewing of PDF and FDF files from within the... (and then come some MIME types)
How to solve: If this is not available compare the content of /opt/mozillafirefox/lib/plugins and add (link) the missing plugins from /usr/lib/browser-plugins (Tip for lazy GUI people: use konqueror in root mode for this. split it in two parts via menu -> window -> split windows up vertically; chooose the correct directories on both sides; then drag the plugin to the other side and choose 'link' as the action).
Peter Vollebregt
About:plugins shows the acrobat7 plugin for pdf. Checked the link, it is okay and is the same plugin used by Opera which works. The only thing I see different is on the machine that works, in preferences, downloads, file types, PDF PDF document Open with is shown where as on the non-working machine it does not show up here, but shows up in plug-ins and in About:plugins. Art