[WEB4LIB] Re: IE and pdf

[stephanie spearman]

We had a problem with pdfs when I completely disabled
all Active X controls. That was several months ago. I
had to give the users back some control in order to
use IRS forms. I plan to look into this someday to see
if that really was the problem or something else.
Anyway, putting back some control worked. 

Stephanie Spearman
Electronic Services Librarian
NGRL
 


--- Thomas Dowling <tdowling at ohiolink.edu> wrote:
> > I've encountered a problem viewing electronic
> database articles in pdf
> > format when using Internet Explorer (specifically,
> with Ebsco
> databases). IE
> > does work with pdf when viewing documents on a
> general web site. Can
> anyone
> > help me correctly configure IE? I am using IE 5.0
> on a Windows 98
> platform
> > with Acrobat Reader 4.0.
> >
> 
> You don't actually say what the problem is, but the
> most likely bet is
> that IE displays a blank window.  If so, this has
> been a known and
> apparently insoluble problem in IE for several
> versions, including 6.0b1.
> 
> MS Knowledge Base article Q177321 attributes this to
> PDFs retrieved by
> POST requests in IE versions before 5.5.  Article
> Q247663 attributes it to
> IE 5.01 receiving a PDF after a redirect and
> suggests installing IE5.01
> service pack 1.
> 
> In my experience, there is a more substantial
> problem with IE handling any
> PDF file when the HTTP request is not simply "GET
> http://somewhere.org/filename.pdf".  Sometimes it
> works, sometimes it
> doesn't.  Also IME, IE has problems restarting the
> Acrobat plugin if
> you've opened and closed Acrobat standalone in the
> meantime.
> 
> Upgrading or reinstalling the browser or the plugin
> may help, at least for
> a while.  This might be a good reason to upgrade to
> Acrobat Reader 5.0 and
> IE 5.5.
> 
> In all cases, you should be able to right-click on
> the link to the PDF
> file and select "Save Target As..." to save the PDF
> file for later
> standalone viewing.
> 
> 
> Thomas Dowling
> OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
> tdowling at ohiolink.edu
> 


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