Hello Fran,
You have several options that you can try depending on how ambitious
(or whichever way solves the problem)
1) Test the browser plug-in.
If you have a pdf file already on your hard drive somewhere, use your
browser to view it.
Use the file menu option "open" to navigate to the pdf file and
choose it. The browser plugin should load and let you view it.
Open the same file using the Acrobat Reader program and compare
the
two versions. If they are the same, then possibly the pdf you are
trying to download has a problem**.
If there is a difference, then a quick trip to Adobe.com for
the
latest version that supports your OS and browser(s) should fix it.
**Fixing server side file type problems is beyond the
scope of this
discussion, but these things still happen, dismally often enough that
one cannot discount it.
2) Bypass the browser plugin.
The two browsers you mention both give you the option to set the
action that is taken when presented with files on the internet (look
for the option to set 'helper applications').
For the files that end in .pdf or .PDF, select these and you should
have choices along the lines of "ask", "use plug-in" or "download and
hand off to application xxx".
Set it to "ask". Each time you then click on a link that has a
file
that ends in .pdf, you should be presented with a dialog window that
asks you if you want to download it, open it in an application, etc.
Choose download and then open the thing up in Acrobat Reader.
Jerry
On Saturday, May 17, 2003, at 06:01 PM, Fran wrote:
>
>
> Jerry Yeager wrote:
>>
>> This sounds like maybe a browser memory problem. Is the site really
>> graphics heavy? Or had you been surfing to a lot of graphics sites
>> before coming into this one? Or is the pdf verrry long?
>>
> I don't think this pdf is very long; it's supposed to be a science lab
> form, but since I can't see it, I don't know if it's very long of if
> there are graphics on it.
>
>> One quick way to increase the memory in OS-9 is to first quite the
>> browser if it is running, then do a Get Info on the main browser
>> program (select it in the finder and do command-I) You will have
>> various choices available to you, one of which is to set the amount of
>> memory available to the program for its own use. Add some and close
>> the
>> info box, then run the program. Note: The amount you add must still
>> leave some for OS-9 to run, so if you only have 500 MB of ram, don't
>> tell the browser to use it all or you could crash the system when you
>> start the browser.
> I added memory to Netscape but still got the identical
> warning/message.
> If I try this on OE, the message is slightly different, so I wonder if
> the problem is in the Adobe Reader application. Do you have any other
> suggestions?
>
>
>> Jerry
>>
>> On Friday, May 16, 2003, at 06:37 PM, Fran wrote:
>>
>>> In trying to look at a pdf file from a web site, 2 messages
>>> came up:
>>> First, a warning, An internal error has occurred; Second, this
>>> message: Could not load the plug-in "PDF VIewer" for the MIME type
>>> 'application/pdf'. Make sure enough memory is available and that the
>>> plug-in is installed correctly.
>>> Any suggestions where to start? How do I insure the plug-in is
>>> installed correctly?
>>>
>>> iMac OS 9.2.1 Adobe Reader 5.0
>>> Fran
>>>
>>>
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