[WEB4LIB] Re: ie5 update info

[Dan Lester]

At 06:30 AM 3/22/99 -0800, Kathy P. Wheeler wrote:
>I tried a few pdf files from online journals and nothing happened when I
>clicked on PDF. IE5 had a message that the document was done put Adobe
>Acrobat did not load and neither did the article.

Although I've not observed that behavior in IE5 yet, it is fairly common in 
IE4 and Acro3.x to have that APPEAR to happen.  But if you click the back 
arrow to go back, and then click the forward arrow to return whence you 
came, you'll find the Acrobat document nicely displayed.  I've also not yet 
seen this behavior with Acro4beta.  But in my experience, it isn't 
consistent in not showing the acrobat page.  I think it might relate to 
memory available, as it seems to happen less frequently on machines with 
more RAM, but that could be off base.

The not displaying Acrobat pages happens frequently enough on our public 
machines that I've taught reference staff the "go back a step and then 
return" trick to get the page to display.

cheers

dan

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