[Camino] pdf viewing

paulc chimera at paulc.com
Mon Apr 16 06:02:01 PDT 2007


At 12:00 PM -0700 4/15/07, camino-request at mozdev.org supposedly scribed:

>  > Stuart Morgan said the following:
>>
>>>  Camino should open it the same way double-clicking in the Finder
>>>  would open it
>>
>>  agreed. Please note however, that my usage and/or my Camino does not,
>>  as seen in the two screen-shots posted here:
>>
>>  http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/2272/caminopdf1rb8.jpg
>
>So in that first screenshot, if you click the "open" toolbar button 
>in the downloads window, it opens in Preview instead of Reader?
>
>>  these show that Camino went straight to download and store the pdf 
>>  into
>>  "Downloads".
>
>That's expected behavior. If your issue is not that it's opening in 
>the wrong app but that it's not auto-opening, then you can enable 
>"Open downloaded files" in the Download prefs. It's a potentially 
>security issue, however, so we leave the pref off by default.
>
>-Stuart

Let's not forget that many DO want the PDF to be "seen/read" right 
inside a browser window, not downloaded to be opened in another app. 
I use a third party "Internet plug-in" and have read that installing 
Acrobat provides a similar method of having the PDF opened in a 
browser window.

There are occasions where I just read it, then close the window. If I 
want it saved, I manually save the PDF where I want it stored.


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