[FX.php List] Offtopic Problem viewing PDFs in FileMaker webviewer

[Jerry Do]

According to our Mac support person,  the latest Safari should open pdf
within the browser by default if Preview is the default viewer.  I tried,
it's working for me. I was able to use Acrobat reader as the default viewer
too.




On 11/9/06 2:32 AM, "Gjermund Gusland Thorsen" <ggt667 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 7.0.8
> 
> 2006/11/8, Do, Jerry H <jhdo at central.uh.edu>:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> What version of Acrobat reader do you have?  According to Adobe, version 5
>>  and 6 do not support PDF viewing within a web browser on Mac OS X.
>> 
>>  http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/325875.html
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>  On 11/8/06 2:56 PM, "Gjermund Gusland Thorsen" <ggt667 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Well it works with Adobe Acrobat too
>>> 
>>> if you go to "internet" in preferences of Acrobat reader and uncheck
>>> the top choice
>>> 
>>> ggt667
>>> 
>>> 2006/11/8, Dale Bengston
>> <dbengston at preservationstudio.com>:
>>>> I'm not surprised it doesn't work on IE. Microsoft abandoned that in
>>>> June of 2003.
>>>> 
>>>> Here's a nice assessment of the state of in-browser PDF viewing on Mac:
>>>> 
>> http://www.macworld.com/2006/08/secrets/septworkingmac/index.php
>>>> 
>>>> Hope this helps,
>>>> Dale
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Nov 8, 2006, at 5:05 AM, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> My webviewer renders all HTML, and shows all JPG, GIF and PNG files
>>>>> just fine,
>>>>> but when I try to view PDFs( on Mac ) I only see a white page...
>>>>> 
>>>>> Anyone got a clue to what could be wrong?
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have tried these without success:
>>>>> ---
>>>>> FireFox
>>>>> wInternet Eggsplorer
>>>>> Safari
>>>>> 
>>>>> But this works with a commercial plug-in
>>>>> ---
>>>>> Safari w/PDF Browser Plugin
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