Browser widget and PDFs

[Tore Nilsen]

Thank you all for your responses, they helped me solve the problem for my part. It is indeed the Adobe web Plugin that is the key to this. Although I have never checked that I would like to use this plugin, it seems as if just launching Acrobat will do this automatically. In the Acrobat preferences the check button for this  is set to true, and the button is disabled. I ended up removing Acrobat from the system, but I could probably have followed Hermans advice and just remove the plugin from the Internet plains folder.

Now I have to ask my student to do the same in order to have the pdf-files displayed without all the bells and whistles provided by the plugin.

Best regards
Tore Nilsen









> 22. nov. 2018 kl. 18:06 skrev Klaus major-k via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
> 
> Hi Tore,
> 
>> Am 22.11.2018 um 18:01 schrieb Tore Nilsen via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>> I don’t think so, as the default app is set to be Preview on both machines. In fact I had forgot I had Acrobat installed on my laptop.
>> Tore Nilsen
>>> Could this be related to the default app that handles PDF on your Mac?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Brian
>>>> I have come across a puzzling phenomenon in how the browser widget handles pdfs. On my iMac I do no have Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat installed. Here, the browser widget displays pdf-files without any hiccups. On my MacBook I have Adobe Acrobat installed, and the browser widget seems to use Adobe Acrobat to display pdf-files inside the widget. When I remove Adobe Acrobat from the application folder, trying to view a pdf-file in the browser widget will prompt me to locate either Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader. Are there any way I can «force» the widget to ignore Acrobat or Reader entirely, and will I be able to view pdf-files in the widget on bothMac and Windows if I do so?
>>>> Best Regards
>>>> Tore Nilsen
> 
> I don't think we can do anything against this, since if a user (like you) has installed Acrobat Reader and has checked "Use Web plugin"
> (or what the correct wording is) somewhere in the Acrobat preferences, that will override the "default" behavior of the underlying webkit 
> on Mac, which Safari uses, too, to display PDFs "natively".
> 
> 
> Best
> 
> Klaus
> 
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