| > Wouldn't it be useful if browsers would display PS and PDF? As far | > as I can tell, the reason they don't is that PS and PDF are patented | > formats owned by Adobe. | | The one I normally use does display PDF; Netscape 4.08 for the Mac | with the PDFViewer plug-in.
Does the browser actually display the PDF? Or does it pop up a separate window for the PDF? The difference isn't inconsequential. One way that I use GIF/PNG files is to incorporate samples of music into a document. This doesn't work with PS or PDF. Instead of showing the music at the point in the document, you get the music in a separate window, with no clue relating it to what should be the adjacent text that is now in a separate window. | I thought all browsers did that? I don't recall ever encountering | a problem viewing a PDF on either a Mac or a PC since they first | started appearing on sites I look at. Most of the questions I've gotten about PS and PDF are from Windows users who can't figure out how to get their browser to do anything sane with them. Macs and most unix/linux systems now come with PS and PDF readers, and their browsers are pre-configured to fire up the appropriate helpers. MS systems still don't seem to come set up to handle PS, though some do know how to handle PDF now. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
