PDF in RevBrowser Without The Adobe Toolbar?

[Terry Judd]

On 13/07/2012, at 05:18 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:

> Before I throw in the towel on this, might someone know if it's possible to
> remove the default toolbar that Adobe draws in a browser when displaying a
> PDF?
> 
> While browsers like Safari and Chrome have their own PDF display routines,
> RevBrowser (on OS X) seems to ignore Safari's behavior and displays Adobe's
> default PDF toolbar.  I need to get rid of it, and supposedly doing this
> this is possible using parameters that Adobe itself created, but the
> parameters don't seem to work in RevBrowser:
> <http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdf_open_para
> meters.pdf>

Can you somehow force the browser to use the preview? plugin instead? All my pdfs in RevBrowser seem to open up in this and it doesn't have a toolbar.

Terry...
> 
> I've tried appending the parameters to the file:// URL as described, I've
> tried urlEncoding the param string, I've tried using revBrowserExecuteScript
> with a javascript function that sets the browser's location with the
> parameters, but have had no luck at all.  I need to remove the toolbar
> because I'm displaying smallish thumbnail PDFs in RevBrowser and the toolbar
> takes up too much space.
> 
> Anybody done this before?  Anybody at all?  Buhler?  Buhler?
> 
> Thanks for any pointers.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX Design
> 
> 
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Dr Terry Judd
Senior Lecturer in Medical Education
Medical Eduction Unit
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences
The University of Melbourne