Subject: RE: MIME type for PDF files
From: Mike Barsalou (mbarsalou@aidea.org)
Date: Thu Jan 17 2002 - 07:39:08 AKST
I checked out another box that I have running X on and the xpdf works there
as well. No tweeking necessary and using Mozilla 0.9.5 also.
I will keep looking around for answers.
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Gribbin [mailto:jgribbin@alaska.net]
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 10:40 PM
To: Jim Gribbin
Cc: Mike Barsalou; 'aklug@aklug.org'
Subject: Re: MIME type for PDF files
Mike,
The mystery deepens.
When I got home, I drug out my RH7.2 box.
It downloads and opens (using xpdf) .pdf files by merely clicking on
them. The helper section in mozilla says NOTHING about .pdf files.
Have you tried going ahead and clicking the save button in the
interaction box that comes up when you clicked on the .pdf file?
I have here at home boxes running RH7.0, RH7.1, and RH7.2. I have done
NO manual tweaking on the 7.2 box, it is an absolutely stock install.
All have Mozilla 0.9.5. All have the Ximian Gnome desktop with various
degrees of updates. All open .pdf files using xpdf with just a click
(they don't wait for me click any boxes or enter any parameters), single
click and it goes. None have an advanced button, that must just be on my
Mandrake 8.1 box at work.
I don't know which version of Mozilla my Mandrake box runs. Just
whatever was on the install CDs.
Jim
On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 22:57, Jim Gribbin wrote:
> Actually, I had forgotten.. My RH7.1 box is set up to use 'xpdf'. It's
> almost as convenient as reading a pdf in Mozilla.
>
> Under mime types 'application/pdf' is set to use 'xpdf %f'. It
> compleatly downloads the pdf before opening, but opens it automatically.
>
> It is possible I missed something in the setup as I didn't actually set
> it up. I think it got set that way automatically during the install of
> Ximian gnome.
>
> Jim
>
> On Wed, 2002-01-09 at 08:59, Mike Barsalou wrote:
> >
> > I am trying to get Mozilla to use the acroread program to view PDF files
> > when I click on a PDF link. Anyone know what the MIME type is?
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
>
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