The internal aol browser is IE. opening a pdf file with a text reader (such as notepad or wordpad) would give you a mess of code and junk. AOL (or any other browser) would open it that way if the file association had been made between .pdf and a text reader in the past. Browsers don't generally recognize a file format unless an association has been made by someone (user or the programmers) but if something was emailed then it wouldn't be opened by the browser anyway (unless you have adobe reader integrated into the browser) but by whatever program your windows registry has been instructed to use for such files. Same would apply if I sent you a .qpd file and you tried to open it with AOL or outlook express. Your computer wouldn't know how to open it and if you elected to look at it in a text reader (notepad/wordpad) then it would look like computer code. .pdf is great for maintaining document formatting but it does have the shortcoming that you must have acrobat reader installed to open the file. .txt, .rtf, and .html seem to have the advantage that almost anyone with a computer can open the file.... just my thoughts for what they're worth. Coach Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 11:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Problem e-mailing PDF file to AOL user I spoke with her (she's 16 and not exactly a computer "geek"). She'd tried to open it "from AOL" and said it looked like junk - had a lot of codes and stuff. I think our browser (Netscape) would know what a .pdf extension is and where to get the reader if it's not installed. I don't know what the AOL browser is or if it "knows" what a pdf file is. Seems kind of strange that it would go ahead and open a file when the extension is something that it doesn't recognize. Anyway, I was able to send her a rtf file of the Ahnantafel report - a much bigger file than the PDF of same. So the problem is taken care of for this time. Thanks to those who answered my message. Ruth Ann Virginia Beck wrote: > > Perhaps she has not downloaded Acrobat Reader, and does not have a program > which will open the PDF filE? > Virginia > ----- Original Message ----- To unsubscribe: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
