Having established that there is a bug in the PDF plug in for Browse 102, with filenames having spaces, we can assume when that is fixed it will be fine. I do have a question, how will the two options (Browser plug in, or download and Read) compare in performance in a situation with say, 30 students reading the same pdf book from the server. Does the plug in download the entire file before displaying? I.e. when it says "Loading" is it loading the local copy? Would that slow down if there was a full class engaged in the same activity?
David Leeming -----Original Message----- From: Reuben Caron [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Reuben K. Caron Sent: Friday, 2 April 2010 10:17 p.m. To: James Cameron Cc: David Leeming; 'XS Devel' Subject: Re: [Server-devel] PDF resources in public folders not opening in Reader On Apr 2, 2010, at 12:46 AM, James Cameron wrote: > On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 08:44:17AM +1000, David Leeming wrote: >> We have many resources that are published in PDF that we want to >> make available >> in public folders. However, when you browse to them and click on a >> PDf file, it >> does not open in Reader but within the browser and I am finding >> that the PDF >> reader plug-in for the Browse activity is not able to open many of >> the files ? > > I've reproduced this and raised a ticket. > http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10098 > >> So, how can we get it to force downloads that then open in Read >> activity? There >> is a check box ?force downloads?, can we make that take affect >> globally in the >> public folder? > > Hopefully an XS expert might be able to answer this. > > In the Browse activity that you are using, it doesn't seem possible > for > the user to force a download. I don't believe this is an XS issue. The XS is serving up the file and correct file type. I believe the solution lies in altering the mime type on the XO, so the XO will download the PDF and associate it with the "Read" application. FWIW, this is exactly how Browse used to work and it was altered so Browse would "open," the pdf rather then having to launch the Read activity. _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
