Right.. that is how i thought it worked to, but Arden says he can edit with
the browser plugin.
At 04:38 PM 11/13/00 -0500, you wrote:
>I believe browsers just load the reader plug-in. You were not editting the
>pdf's in the reader, but in the full blown acrobat environment (or distiller
>or some other pdf writing environment).
>That's what I'm guessing, anyway.
>
>~Simon
>
> > Simon Horwith
> > Certified ColdFusion Developer
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>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chad Gray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 4:25 PM
>To: CF-Talk
>Subject: RE: Edit a PDF
>
>
>Hmmm strange... maybe my browser plugins are not up to date or
>something. All i have in the browser plugin is the tool bar at the top. I
>dont have the tool bar on the left side that lets you edit.
>
>I cannot edit PDFs at all in the browser, but i can in my Acrobat
>program. The PDFs are some test files i created without any password
>protection.
>
>Thanks for the feedback. It appears there is something really screw up
>with my installation.
>
>
>
>At 04:10 PM 11/13/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >Again, don't understand.
> >
> >I forgot I had installed Acrobat 4.0 on my laptop -- hence I just
> >loaded/used 4.0 (the big capital T button) to select a line of text in a
> >PDF file and edit it at will, just as I was able to do in 3.01 -- it
> >responds a bit sluggish, but it does it. The only difference is the the
> >tool bar is at the left margin instead of at the top of the screen. Are you
> >PDFs password protected in some manner?
> >
> >
> >Arden Weiss
> >410-757-3487
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Chad Gray [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 3:43 PM
> >To: CF-Talk
> >Subject: RE: Edit a PDF
> >
> >At 02:56 PM 11/13/00 -0500, you wrote:
> > >Don't understand. I am running Acrobat Exchange 3.01 and the edit tools
> >are
> > >there when I call up a PDF file in a browser window. Both the button with
> > >the big capital T and the one to the left of it work -- can edit with the
> > >reader version of course.
> >
> >All i can do is select text, and images in the 4.00 browser plugin. I
> >cannot add notation, highlight text, make lines etc.
> >
> >This is why im leaning towards using Authorware to download the file to a
> >temp directory, launch Adobe Acrobat, let the user edit the file with their
> >
> >notations and drawings, then when the user saves, and closes Acrobat have
> >the AW program upload the file to the appropriate FTP directory.
> >
> >Of course this has to be cross platform, so the Mac version will probably
> >use some Applescript for the file handling.
> >
> >Thanks for the links. I will check them out.
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