On 11/16/2015 09:10 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 16 Nov 2015, Dick Steffens wrote: > >> That's why I was wondering if Firefox uses a pdf reader as a tool to >> display a .pdf, and if somehow it is different from the Document Viewer >> program in Ubuntu 14.04. > Dick, > > In the firefox frame, when you follow the menus Edit -> Preferences -> > Applications what do you have for an application for PDFs? > > Here, (firefox-38.4.0; Slackware stays way back from the bleeding edges), > my preference is to 'Save File' while the other options are 'xpdf (default,' > 'Adobe Reader 9.5 in firefox,' and 'Other.' Perhaps selecting 'Other' and > specifying what you want to use will help.
Doh. That's the clue stick I was looking for. I used the hamburger icon but didn't find preferences in there. I totally forgot to look under Edit. Anyway, I have Content Type: Portable Document Format (PDF), Action: Preview in Firefox, followed by Use Document Viewer (Default). When I open the pdf from a directory with Document Viewer, it looks correct. Sigh. The option to Use Other ... takes me to "Select Helper Application" which shows me my desktop. I'm not sure I have any other pdf viewers loaded. > xpdf (at least the Slackware-14.1 version) does not handle pdf-1.6 or -1.7 > which is commonly used now by almost all microserfs; mupdf is an alternative > that works with all PDF versions. Interesting. I installed xpdf, then pointed Firefox at it instead of Document Viewer. Sure enough, when I click on the .pdf, it opens in xpdf, as a separate window. I switched back to Document Viewer, and now Firefox opens the .pdf file correctly, but not in a Firefox tab, but in a separate Document Viewer window. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
