Thankyou Mandy for your advice-I shall follow your suggested steps over this weekend and shall let you know of my success. Thanks KerryScurrah ---- Mandy F <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > As I've said, I'm a bit of a computer tech and decided to try and help you > guys and girls out that might be having problems with their Java settings and > pdf files. I personally use Opera to browse the net and don't have any > problems. But then again, I've had my fights with the internet. ;P > > Anyway, these steps will seem a little convoluted, but they will allow you to > download those items that you'd really like to have, but don't really want to > ask others to download and send to you. > > 1. First we need to turn off the automatic opening of PDF files in internet > Explorer (or whatever) Each browser has it own way, but here's a work > around... > Follow the directions on this page. It will show you how to set this up in > Adobe Reader. (Opera allows you to turn this off in it's own preferences - > Ask me how, if you'd like to know that one) > http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/06/17/disable-pdf-from-opening-in-web-browser-ie-firefox-opera-safari/ > > > > 2. Open canon in whatever browser you like, until you get to those dastardly > download buttons. > > 3. Right click the page and select "source" or "view source". Hold down ctrl > and hit F for the find dialogue box. type in .pdf (Yes the full stop too), it > will highlight the file we want to download. > > 4. now copy the address including everything between the " s. > > 5. Paste it in the browser, but make sure you include the domain.. > http://cp.c-ij.com before the pasted information. > > Press enter and wait. :) > > I know this is really long, but it might some for the time being. I'll see > if I can find another "backdoor" to make it even easier... like a mirror or > something with **real** links. > > Toodles, > > Mandy > > > >
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