I've used this plugin without any issues.
http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginpdf/
It is a commerical pugin (US$69 for a site license), but it's much
better than the built in support and Adobe's plugin.
It is only for PPC mac's though....
Cheers,
Tom
On 15/03/2006, at 8:17 AM, Guyren Howe wrote:
On Mar 14, 2006, at 1:47 PM, Phil M wrote:
If I remember right, there is a bug or a 'lack of support' for
this in at
least one version of Acrobat. It's been a while since I even
tried this on
a Mac, so this functionality might have been added again with a
later
version of Acrobat.
Also, while you can't control which version of Acrobat your
users install,
my guess is that viewing PDF files in the default browser on
that particular
machine simply no longer works.
The HTMLViewer is using the default browser to display HTML.
As I said, this works fine in Safari. So it's something to do
with REAL's use of webkit, not webkit itself.
If you look in the Safari package, you will see that there are a
number of aliases to different frameworks including the Adobe
Acrobat frameworks. It might be that Adobe Acrobat has partly
made the connection with WebKit, but is looking for and cannot
find the aliases to their framework and creates a fatal error (for
Acrobat).
Adobe Acrobat probably never worked within the HTMLViewer. OS X
10.4 and higher added the ability to display PDFs directly in
Safari by using Preview... but whenever you install or upgrade
Adobe Acrobat, it resets the preferences and installs the plugin
in Safari if you accept their seemly innocent dialog.
I would report this issue to Adobe to see if they could properly
hook into the WebKit framework instead of doing this "hack".
Further research shows that the Adobe Reader plugin appears to be
at fault.
As of a recent version of OS X, Webkit has built-in support for
PDFs (pretty basic, but it works). If you delete
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/AdobePDFViewer.plugin
it all works.
I'd still like to have the Adobe Reader plugin working, but this
much is useful.
Guyren G Howe
guyren-at-relevantlogic.com
http://relevantlogic.com
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