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.
SUSE 10.0 Firefox > Edit > Preferences > Downloads > Plugins has a list of plug-ins, all enabled, that includes "pdf". If it's got that, then shouldn't it at least try to display a pdf file? Even if it's not an explicit Adobe Acrobat plug-in, if there is an enabled entry for PDF, then doesn't that imply that it should be using one of the other (open-source?) pdf readers? Else, why have the entry with the checkmark for "enabled"? Do other people have something different in their plug-ins list? What? Also, if I open the Help in Firefox, and search for "plug-ins", I get a page about plug-ins with sentence (containing a link) that says: "To see a full list of Firefox plug-ins you can install, see the Browser Plug-ins page at Netscape.com. " The link is the words "Browser Plug-ins page". When I click that, I get directed to: http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/ which contains ONLY the sales pitch to use the Netscape browser, with a !Free Download! for Windows XP-English. Nothing about plug-ins that I can reach from that link. Using the google-ized search engine on the Netscape site eventually finds a link to Adobe itself, but then they don't make it immediately easy to find a Firefox plug-in for Linux either. It's not impossible, just far less straightforward than one might expect. But why? Or did I just overlink a look? :-) Kevin