The iText documentation supplies a workaround for some MSIE problems and I haven't had any trouble with it so far. The fact that Netscape isn't reading STATIC PDF files served by Tomcat makes me think there's something hinky in Tomcat. I'll be certain to post my findings, if there are any!
Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Abhi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 2:07 PM Subject: Re: Problems serving PDF to Netscape browsers > Coincidentally ... > > http://www.lib.washington.edu/help/knownIssues/#ie > > So better do a check again for IE as well. Don't be too sure that it will > work with *all* versions of IE on all flavours of windows. On some, I > couldn't see it at all, till we applied the latest critical patch for the > concerned windows... > > IE 6 did not give any problems... but it was a different story for IE 5.5 > and downwards... > > Perhaps try fiddling with "check browser settings" option in Acrobat reader > ? > > Hope this was useful. :) > > Btw, I would be very interested in your findings and results on this > problem... > Is it possible for you to share the info ? > > Regards, > Abhi > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jeff Larsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 3:44 AM > Subject: Problems serving PDF to Netscape browsers > > > > I'm running out of hair to pull out here... > > > > My ultimate goal is to server dynamically generated > > PDF documents generated with iText. I've got it working > > just fine with MSIE. However, I was just getting blank > > pages with Netscape (and it wasn't even showing the toolbar > > for Acrobat). With NS6 I could at least see that it started > > an AcroRd32.exe process, but NS4 didn't even get that far. > > > > So, I did some tests to rule out some variables. I grabbed > > a handful of pre-generated PDF files and stuck them on > > my Apache 1.3.23 server. All browsers could display the > > PDFs just fine. Then I set up Tomcat 4.0.3 to server the > > same files directly without going through Apache. MSIE worked, > > but both NS browsers gave a blank page with no Acrobat plugin > > toolbar. Again NS6 managed to start an Acrobat process, NS4 > > didn't. > > > > My production environment is Apache 1.3.23 and Tomcat 4.0.3 > > connected with mod_jk. > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
