Hi Beth & all,
I have tried the fixes below to get the Acrobat Reader to launch when MSIE
tries to view a PDF file. All the steps work fine, but MSIE still takes over
displaying the file.
There may still be some craziness going on in the Filetype definition for PDF,
but those settings all look normal to me.
Netscape behaves the way we want, though, launching Acrobat Reader & thus
allowing the INS+Q plug-in to be in effect.
Patrick
At 07:24 PM 2/28/99 , Beth Hatch-Alleyne wrote:
> To configure Internet Explorer or AOL to use Acrobat as an
>external
> viewer:
>
> Exit Internet Explorer or AOL.
>
>
> Choose Start > Find > Files Or Folders.
>
>
> Type "pdf*.ocx," choose your local hard drive from the Look
>In
> pop-up menu, and then click Find Now. Make a note of the
> pathname to each Pdf*.ocx file on your system.
>
>
> Choose Start > Run.
>
>
> Type "regsvr32 -u X:\[path]\pdf*.ocx" in the Open text box,
> where "X" is the drive and "[path]" is the path to a
>Pdf*.ocx
> file. For example:
>
> regsvr32 -u C:\Acrobat3\Exchange\ActiveX\pdf42.ocx
>
>
> Click OK.
>
>
> Repeat steps 4-6 for every Pdf*.ocx file installed on your
> system.
>
>
> Delete the Pdf*.ocx and Pdf.tlb files from the
> Acrobat3\Exchange\ActiveX and Acrobat3\Reader\ActiveX
> directories or from the Reader\ActiveX directory. You must
> delete all the Pdf*.ocx files; if you rename or move the
>files,
> Internet Explorer or AOL can still use them.
>
>
> If Netscape Navigator is installed, locate the Nppdf32.dll
>file
> in the Netscape\Navigator\Program\Plugins directory or the
> Netscape\Communicator\Program\Plugins directory, and then
>move
> or rename the file. (Internet Explorer and AOL can use the
> Nppdf32.dll file if it cannot locate a Pdf.ocx file.)
>
>
>
>
>
>=Beth Hatch-Alleyne=
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