John McChesney-Youngwrites: | John Chambers asked about Macs: | >Does the browser actually display the PDF? Or does it pop up a | >separate window for the PDF? | | On my machine Communicator 4.79 displays the .pdf in the browser window. | Unlike most other plug-ins, PDFViewer starts the full application (Acrobat | Reader) as well, but the .pdf files actually show in the browser, with the | cryptic little AR navigational buttons inside the window underneath those | of the browser. The same is true for IE 5.0 and iCab 2.8.
Hmmm ... I see I wasn't specific enough. With JPEG, GIF and PNG files, you can include them *inside* a page with a tag like: <img src="http://foo.bar.com/junk.gif"; alt="pretty picture"> This will cause the image to be displayed as part of the web page, surrounded by text. Does this work for .ps, .eps or .pdf files with these browsers? It sounds like what you're describing is something that handles a link like: <a href="http://foo.bar.com/junk.pdf";>pretty picture</a> This will NOT be displayed as part of the text; it will only be displayed as a separate "page" after the user clicks on the link. Whether this is in a new window, or replaces the text in the browser's window, it doesn't work for the things I was describing. It isn't an image inside a web page; it's an image in a separate window. For example, if you look at: http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/doc/ABCtut_Intro.html you will see a number of GIF and PNG images of musical examples. These would be better done as EPS, since that would give better images on larger screens (and wouldn't be too wide for small screens). But as far as I know, you can't do this because browsers won't display EPS images inside a page like this. (Hmmm ... Maybe I should include an EPS version here, just for yuks.) It would be especially useful if a browsers could handle embedded EPS documents, which are intended to be displayed inside a larger document. (The 'E' stands for "Embedded".) I've tried this in the past, and it never worked with any browsers I could get my hands on. I've read comments that this was something intended in the original (Mosaic) browser back around 1990. But it went commercial too soon; Netscape and Microsoft never saw fit to implement EPS, so nobody else has, either. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
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