On 7/17/2014 2:01 PM, BIll Spikowski wrote: > Every so often something changes and I have to re-figure out how to get PDF > files from the web to open the way I want. > > Recently I upgraded from Acrobat 9 to Acrobat XI and things have gotten > jumbled again. > > Now when I download a PDF file, it opens in a Seamonkey tab using Reader > instead of Acrobat 9. I can save the file, then open it in Acrobat 9 or XI in > a separate window, but I'd rather not do that over and over! > > I seem to remember that this behavior is controlled by the order in which > Reader and Acrobat was installed -- is that correct? If so, it would seem > PDFs should now open in a Seamonkey tab using Acrobat XI. > > I just disabled Reader in the Add-ons Manager (where perversely it identifies > itself as Acrobat!). Now I'm asked if I want to open the file in Acrobat (in > a separate window), which works, but is not my preferred behavior. > > Does anyone know how I can reset Acrobat XI to open in a Seamonkey tab? > > (BTW, I've tried some of the other alternatives (PDF.js, Foxit, Nitro PDF) > but none of them offer the functionality of the full Acrobat product.) >
Part of your problem might be the fact that the plugins for both Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader are .dll files with the same name: nppdf32.dll. It appears that Adobe Reader has two identical copies of that file, one in the Browser subfolder and one in the AIR subfolder. Adobe Acrobat has only one, in the Browser subfolder. On the SeaMonkey menu bar, select [Help > About Plugins]. Find Adobe Acrobat on the page. Note that, no matter whether the plugin is really from Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader, it will be identified as Adobe Acrobat. Check the path to nppdf32.dll. If it is the path through Adobe Reader, that is the cause of your problem. In that case, try the following: 1. On the SeaMonkey menu bar, select [Edit > Preferences]. 2. On the left side of the Preferences window, select [Browser > Helper Applications]. 3. On the Helper Applications pane, locate Adobe Acrobat Document and select that line. 4. On the right side of Adobe Acrobat Document line, select the down-pointing triangle to get a selection list. Select Use Other. 5. On the Select Helper Application window, select the actual Adobe Acrobat application. If it is not in that window, select the Browse button, navigate to Adobe Acrobat, and select it. (What you really want is "Adobe Acrobat (in SeaMonkey)", but I don't know how to force that. You might try navigating to the nppdf32.dll file in Adobe Acrobat's Browser subfolder and selecting that.) 6. After selecting OK buttons to terminate the Preference window and its panes and subwindows, again go to [Help > About Plugins] to see if the correct path to nppdf32.dll is displayed. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> On occasion, I filter and ignore all newsgroup messages posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/1.0 user agent because of spam, flames, and trolling from that source. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
