Re: Howto view pdf documents ...

[Kiffin Gish <kiffin gish demon nl>]

On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 15:55 +0200, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> Hello Kiffin,
> 
> On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Kiffin Gish wrote:
> 
> > I want to be able to click on a pdf link and view it in the browser. For
> > some reason this does not work.
> 
> I cannot imagine why someone would want to view a pdf in the browser 
> window instead of in a dedicated pdf viewer. But if you really want 
> that, you need the acrobat reader mozilla plugin. (I don't even know if 
> that will work on FreeBSD).

Well, alright I do not need to view it *in the browser* but it would
still be nice to have the correct viewer fire up automatically.

> 
> The fact that some (pdf) hyperlinks will force epiphany to open a new 
> window which then stays blank, is a known problem but hard to fix.
> 
> > What's the best way (for a newbie like me) to get to #gnome-nl?
> 
> Launch your favourite irc program (if have never used one, Gaim will do 
> nicely) and open a connection to irc.gnome.org. Then simply join the 
> #gnome-nl or #epiphany channel. See also http://nl.gnome.org/gnome-nl.php
> 

Yeps checked it out and it works thanks.

> regards,
> 
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Kiffin Gish
Gouda, The Netherlands