Subject: RE: MIME type for PDF files
From: Jim Gribbin (jgribbin@alaska.net)
Date: Fri Jan 18 2002 - 01:57:12 AKST
C-o-o-o-l - another new trick. I missed Arthur saying that and didn't
know Mozilla would do that.
Jim
On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 10:53, Mike Barsalou wrote:
>
>
> Justin,
>
> I did what you suggested, but the next time I clicked on the pdf, it just
> presented me with the save box...there were no extra options in that dialog.
>
> On the good side, I found that the version of Mozilla that I am using has
> the thing that Arthur was talking about last night with the multiple tabs
> instead of multiple windows.
>
> You just have to press Ctrl-T to get a new tab. Very nice.
>
> Mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Dieters [mailto:enderak@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 7:47 AM
> To: aklug@aklug.org
> Cc: mbarsalou@aidea.org
> Subject: Re: MIME type for PDF files
>
>
> Mike, I am using Netscape 6.2, and I have my helper for application/pdf
> set up to run ''//opt/kde2/bin/kghostview'', and it works perfectly...
>
> After playing around for a bit, I found that if you uncheck ''Always ask
> before opening this type of file'' when you go to save a pdf, and you
> have it default to save rather than open, it no longer cares what you
> have under Helper applications. In other words, it acts just like yours
> was at the meeting, so I'm thinking that maybe that is the problem.
>
> In order to reset it, there is a ''Reset'' button at the bottom of the
> helper application dialog box to reset your save/open preferences. I
> looked in Mozilla 0.9.4 and it has the same dialogs as Netscape 6.2.
> Then next time you download a pdf, it will bring up the box which asks
> to save or open and from there you can pick the application to open
> with, and set it as the default action, or whatever it is you are
> wanting to do.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Justin
> enderak@yahoo.com
>
>
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