PDF in RevBrowser Without The Adobe Toolbar?

Scott Rossi scott at tactilemedia.com
Fri Jul 13 13:52:02 EDT 2012


I wonder if this is an Acrobat Pro issue (which I have installed).  Maybe
one doesn't get the toolbar with standard Acrobat reader?

But it's strange that I see the toolbar in RevBrowser and not in Safari or
Chrome.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX Design



Recently, Terry Judd wrote:

> 
> 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
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