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

Gjermund Gusland Thorsen ggt667 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 9 11:57:12 MST 2006


Where do you set default viewer?

2006/11/9, Jerry Do <jhdo at central.uh.edu>:
>
> 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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