[WEB4LIB] Re: Display/print problems with pdf's in Netscape 6

[Mary Kindred]

Upgrade to IE 5.5 and Acrobat Reader 5. Of course I still use Windoze 95 but
it works fine for me. I have no trouble opening a PDF file from a link.

M a r y  K i n d r e d
T h e  L i b r a r y  P r o j e c t
mary.kindred at maine.edu
http://www.geocities.com/thelibraryproject/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sidey, Carolyne L" <Carolyne.Sidey at crt.xerox.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 12:12 PM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Display/print problems with pdf's in Netscape 6


> I am having a similar but different problem.  When I click on a link to a
> PDF file in IE5 I get a blank page opening up in my browser window with
> "done" at the bottom of the browser.  I have acrobat 4 (not just the
reader)
> on my machine. The acrobat program will open PDF directly, but not from a
> link.
>
> any suggestions for this?
>
> thanks
>
>
>
> Carolyne Sidey
> Manager, XRCC Library
> Xerox Research Centre of Canada
> Mississauga, Ontario
> 1 (905) 823-7091 ext. 302
>
> <mailto:csidey at crt.xerox.com>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew I. Mutch [mailto:amutch at waterford.lib.mi.us]
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 11:22 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Display/print problems with pdf's in Netscape 6
>
>
> Robert,
>
> Copy this file:
>
> nppdf32.dll
>
> from here:
>
> C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Reader\Browser
>
> to here:
>
> C:\Program Files\Netscape\Netscape 6\Plugins
>
> Once you've done that, Netscape should automatically load Adobe when you
> try to open a PDF file. A quick way to check the status of plugins in
> Netscape/Mozilla browsers is to enter:
>
> about:plugins
>
> in the URL/Location bar.  In Netscape 6, it is also an option under the
> Help menu. In the page that displays plugin info, you should see Adobe
> Acrobat listed.
>
> With the plugin copied, the PDF files load in the browser. I noticed that
> when I didn't have the plugin copied, the PDF's launched Reader outside
> the browser. I have the same setup (Netscape 6.2.1/Windows2000) so it's
> probably a file association issue why it works on some and not on others.
>
> Andrew Mutch
> Library Systems Technician
> Waterford Township Public Library
> Waterford, MI
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, VanderHart, Robert wrote:
>
> > This may have been covered before, but I couldn't find anything in the
> list
> > archives.  By the way, the search function for the Web4Lib archives has
> been
> > enhanced and is a big improvement.
> >
> > Our public machines (Windows 2000) have Netscape 6 and Acrobat Reader 5.
> > When a patron clicks a pdf, a box pops up and says the file type is
> > unrecognized by Mozilla.  I click the Save button and try to open up the
> > file in AR 5, but it hasn't been saved as a pdf so I get an error
message
> in
> > AR as well.
> >
> > I can't add the application/pdf file type in the browser's Helper
> > Applications, even when I'm logged in as an administrator.
> >
> > To make things even stranger, the same machine a half hour later opened
> the
> > same pdf with no problem.
> >
> > FWIW, my machine (Netscape 6.2, Windows NT4) has no problems opening
pdfs,
> > and I noticed in the Helper Applications that there is nothing listed
for
> > application/pdf there either.
> >
> > Other than posting signs and telling everyone to use IE as their browser
> > (which was essentially the advice I got from the technician at our IS
Help
> > Desk), is there a workaround for this problem?
> >
> >
> >
> > Robert J. Vander Hart
> > Electronic Resources Librarian
> > The Lamar Soutter Library
> > University of Massachusetts Medical School
> > 55 Lake Avenue N
> > Worcester  MA  01655
> >
> > Voice: (508) 856-3290
> > Fax: (508) 856-5899
> > Email: Robert.VanderHart at umassmed.edu
> > Web: http://library.umassmed.edu
> >
>