On 1/17/2020 3:13 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
>>
>>
>> WaltS48 wrote:
>>> On 1/10/20 4:13 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> WaltS48 wrote:
>>>>> On 1/9/20 9:08 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>>>>>> I recently was forced to update my Adobe Acrobat Reader from v11 to 
>>>>>> v2019.021 (Reader DC) because I encountered an important .pdf file 
>>>>>> which wouldn't open in the older version.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I also have the Adobe Acrobat Plugin v19.21 activated on SeaMonkey 
>>>>>> v2.49.5.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ever since installing the Acrobat Reader update, I've been having 
>>>>>> intermittent problems opening .pdf files in SeaMonkey. Sometimes 
>>>>>> the page will say "done", but the display will be blank. Sometimes 
>>>>>> re-loading the page corrects the problem, but not always. If I save 
>>>>>> the page to my desktop as a .pdf file, Acrobat Reader will open it 
>>>>>> in its own window.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I went into Preferences->Helper Applications and changed the 
>>>>>> settings to "Use Adobe Acrobat Reader DC". Now when I click on a 
>>>>>> .pdf file in a web page, the file opens properly but in a separate 
>>>>>> Acrobat Reader window. I would much prefer to have it open as 
>>>>>> before in the SeaMonkey window. How do I do that? Thanks!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> John
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you have the PDF viewer extension installed?
>>>>>
>>>>> It should appear in the Actions column of Helper Applications and 
>>>>> you can select it.
>>>>>
>>>> No, I was not aware of this extension. It only has been downloaded 46 
>>>> times and has no reviews, so I'm a bit hesitant to try it.
>>>>
>>>> It wasn't required before, so why would it be required now? There 
>>>> ought to be a better way.
>>>>
>>>> John
>>>
>>> It is not required. Looks like it has 140 users to me.
>>>
>>> <https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/seamonkey/addon/pdf-js-for-seamonkey/?src=ss>
>>>  
>>>
>>>
>>> The better way for me is to use Firefox which doesn't allow the Adobe 
>>> Acrobat Plugin anymore and has a built-in PDF viewer.
>>>
>>> I hope someone comes along with a solution to your problem.
>>>
>> This works! Thank you for your help.
>>
>> John
> I spoke too soon. It works for opening a .pdf but when I try to print 
> the .pdf from SeaMonkey the output is garbage. If I save the file to my 
> desktop and open it with Acrobat Reader, then it prints fine.
> 
> John
> 

While I do not get garbage, I find that text near the right edge of the
page is truncated.

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