MCBastos wrote: > Interviewed by CNN on 11/04/2012 16:42, BIll Spikowski told the > world: >> I've lost the toolbar that allowed me to save or print a PDF >> file when opened in a Seamonkey window, which is pretty essential >> to make use of PDF files. >> >> I'm running SM 2.8 in Windows XP and use the full version of >> Adobe Acrobat (now 9.5). When I went to the plug-in section of >> the SM add-ons manager, this was reported as being out of date, >> so I clicked "update." What I got was a new PDF plug-in for >> Acrobat 10.1 (and drat -- those devils at Adobe snuck McAfee >> Virus Scan right past my suspicious nose!). >> >> Now I have both Acrobat plug-ins installed and visible in AOM, >> but still no toolbar. >> >> Should I uninstall one plug-in or the other? >> >> Since the toolbar problem seems to be unrelated, how might I get >> it back? > > Personally, I don't find it particularly advantageous to open a PDF > inside the browser window via plugin. Yes, it opens the first page > quickly, but since the other pages are downloaded on-demand, the > end result is sluggish page turning.
Is on-demand loading a user-controlled setting? I've never noticed any real delay in advancing pages in a PDF opened in a browser tab. The behavior seems to vary between files; often it takes a good while to open even the first page of a really big PDF file, but I've never noticed a similar delay in subsequent pages. Maybe page turning isn't quite as snappy as having the PDF open in Acrobat, but in normal reading I've never noticed a problem. > I ended up disabling the PDF plugin entirely. Now Seamonkey > downloads the entire PDF file and opens it in Adobe Reader in a > separate window. A few seconds longer to begin, but a much more > pleasing reading experience. I don't do that because Adobe Acrobat is very slow to load, even on a fast computer. It sounds like you open PDFs in Reader instead, which may be less cumbersome; I'll try it. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
