Thanks for the advice, John... :o) Rick
-----Original Message----- From: John Dowdell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 4:32 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Using PDF's... Rick Faircloth wrote: > Just curious if today's browsers, especially IE, > have built-in support for reading PDF's. I mean > they are able to open them and print them without > having Acrobat Reader installed. Microsoft Internet Explorer uses system-level ActiveX Controls as an extension mechanism, and these will auto-install if a sufficient version of the Control is not already installed on that system. So, the free Adobe Reader, in its ActiveX wrapper, will automatically download if not yet on the system, and a little permissions dialog will appear. Easy-peasy. Other browsers use Netscape Plugins, and so there's a page-redirect before installation. Apple's Safari browser uses the Apple system-level PDF renderer, Apple Preview. This can handle simple PDF documents, but can show font/display issues with basic files, and does not support the collaborative features of Adobe Acrobat. Practically speaking, people see so many PDF files through the life of a computer that it's a rare system which cannot already render garden-variety PDF. (PDFs are indeed much friendlier and more universal than DOCs... the latter require money to render, for one. ;-) jd ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:258075 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
