Re: Adobe Acrobat and Reader
On 19/07/14 00:37, BIll Spikowski wrote: BIll Spikowski wrote: BIll Spikowski wrote: Every so often something changes and I have to re-figure out how to get PDF files from the web to open the way I want. Recently I upgraded from Acrobat 9 to Acrobat XI and things have gotten jumbled again. Now when I download a PDF file, it opens in a Seamonkey tab using Reader instead of Acrobat 9. I can save the file, then open it in Acrobat 9 or XI in a separate window, but I'd rather not do that over and over! I seem to remember that this behavior is controlled by the order in which Reader and Acrobat was installed -- is that correct? If so, it would seem PDFs should now open in a Seamonkey tab using Acrobat XI. I just disabled Reader in the Add-ons Manager (where perversely it identifies itself as Acrobat!). Now I'm asked if I want to open the file in Acrobat (in a separate window), which works, but is not my preferred behavior. Does anyone know how I can reset Acrobat XI to open in a Seamonkey tab? (BTW, I've tried some of the other alternatives (PDF.js, Foxit, Nitro PDF) but none of them offer the functionality of the full Acrobat product.) I was writing a LONG message detailing all the suggestions I followed -- I saved it so I could restart Seamonkey, but who knows where it went! Anyway, thanks for all the ideas; I'm working through them one by one. So far the behavior is unchanged -- but I'm getting confident I'll figure it out! Not sure exactly which tip did the trick, but everything seems to be working fine now. I truly appreciate the knowledgeable folks in this newsgroup who are willing to help out total strangers! Bill, I don't think we're total strangers, just you, this week, might have been me last year or the year before!! That's why I hang out around here, to try to lighten the load on those that helped me out previously!! -- Daniel User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 SeaMonkey/2.26 Build identifier: 20140415200419 or User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.26 Build identifier: 20140408191805 ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Adobe Acrobat and Reader
BIll Spikowski wrote: Every so often something changes and I have to re-figure out how to get PDF files from the web to open the way I want. Recently I upgraded from Acrobat 9 to Acrobat XI and things have gotten jumbled again. Now when I download a PDF file, it opens in a Seamonkey tab using Reader instead of Acrobat 9. I can save the file, then open it in Acrobat 9 or XI in a separate window, but I'd rather not do that over and over! I seem to remember that this behavior is controlled by the order in which Reader and Acrobat was installed -- is that correct? If so, it would seem PDFs should now open in a Seamonkey tab using Acrobat XI. I just disabled Reader in the Add-ons Manager (where perversely it identifies itself as Acrobat!). Now I'm asked if I want to open the file in Acrobat (in a separate window), which works, but is not my preferred behavior. Does anyone know how I can reset Acrobat XI to open in a Seamonkey tab? (BTW, I've tried some of the other alternatives (PDF.js, Foxit, Nitro PDF) but none of them offer the functionality of the full Acrobat product.) I was writing a LONG message detailing all the suggestions I followed -- I saved it so I could restart Seamonkey, but who knows where it went! Anyway, thanks for all the ideas; I'm working through them one by one. So far the behavior is unchanged -- but I'm getting confident I'll figure it out! ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Adobe Acrobat and Reader
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: BIll Spikowski wrote: Every so often something changes and I have to re-figure out how to get PDF files from the web to open the way I want. Recently I upgraded from Acrobat 9 to Acrobat XI and things have gotten jumbled again. Now when I download a PDF file, it opens in a Seamonkey tab using Reader instead of Acrobat 9. I can save the file, then open it in Acrobat 9 or XI in a separate window, but I'd rather not do that over and over! I seem to remember that this behavior is controlled by the order in which Reader and Acrobat was installed -- is that correct? If so, it would seem PDFs should now open in a Seamonkey tab using Acrobat XI. I just disabled Reader in the Add-ons Manager (where perversely it identifies itself as Acrobat!). Now I'm asked if I want to open the file in Acrobat (in a separate window), which works, but is not my preferred behavior. Does anyone know how I can reset Acrobat XI to open in a Seamonkey tab? (BTW, I've tried some of the other alternatives (PDF.js, Foxit, Nitro PDF) but none of them offer the functionality of the full Acrobat product.) First off, I don't understand why you have the Reader installed at all. Why let the programs compete when you have a much more powerful program in Acrobat XI? So I recommend uninstalling the Reader and simplifying the problem and your life. Having done so, go to Edit | Preferences | Browser | Helper Applications and look at the prefs for PDF files. You'll see several different types because PDF files are served with several different MIME headers. If you want them to open in a SeaMonkey window, choose the option Use Adobe Acrobat (in SeaMonkey). If you insist on retaining the reader, you can also select that in the same way. You may also find it helpful to set a pref in Acrobat. I have version X, where it was at Edit | Preferences | Internet | [x] Display PDF in browser. That's supposed to prevent Acrobat from launching as a separate application to handle PDF links when you browse. Another Acrobat pref that may be relevant is at Edit | Preferences | General | Select Default PDF Handler. If you specify Acrobat XI, PDFs should only ever open in the Reader when you open them from within the Reader. But of course if you've uninstalled the Reader, there's no issue here. I've NEVER installed Reader, having used various versions of the full Acrobat product for at least a dozen years; yet it keeps reappearing as a Seamonkey tab. I NEVER let Adobe install updates without my explicit permission, so I'm not sure how this keeps happening. Reader isn't listed in Add or Remove Programs; nor is it listed as an application I can launch directly. So it must exist only as a browser plug-in (not even sure that's the right term). I use several other browsers occasionally so perhaps one of them installed it and it's hidden from my view. I went to Edit | Preferences | Browser | Helper Applications. I see two PDF types. One (application/force-download) is set for Use Adobe Acrobat 9.5, a previous that I haven't uninstalled. The other (application/pdf) is set for Use Adobe Acrobat. I don't see a choice for Use Adobe Acrobat (in SeaMonkey), which sounds like what I really want. (In the dropdown box, Reader doesn't appear as an option.) I reset the 9.5 option to XI. I tried your next step; the choices are a little different in XI. It provides instructions for different browsers; the Firefox instructions seem to match Seamonkey, but the Acrobat option doesn't appear (maybe because I disabled it yesterday to get rid of Reader!). I tried your last step; it was already set to Acrobat XI, but I applied it again in hopes that it might start working. Still no change. I restarted Seamonkey; still no change. Restarted Windows; still no change. But now I have Use Adobe Acrobat (in SeaMonkey) as a choice, so I'm making progress! ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Adobe Acrobat and Reader
BIll Spikowski wrote: BIll Spikowski wrote: Every so often something changes and I have to re-figure out how to get PDF files from the web to open the way I want. Recently I upgraded from Acrobat 9 to Acrobat XI and things have gotten jumbled again. Now when I download a PDF file, it opens in a Seamonkey tab using Reader instead of Acrobat 9. I can save the file, then open it in Acrobat 9 or XI in a separate window, but I'd rather not do that over and over! I seem to remember that this behavior is controlled by the order in which Reader and Acrobat was installed -- is that correct? If so, it would seem PDFs should now open in a Seamonkey tab using Acrobat XI. I just disabled Reader in the Add-ons Manager (where perversely it identifies itself as Acrobat!). Now I'm asked if I want to open the file in Acrobat (in a separate window), which works, but is not my preferred behavior. Does anyone know how I can reset Acrobat XI to open in a Seamonkey tab? (BTW, I've tried some of the other alternatives (PDF.js, Foxit, Nitro PDF) but none of them offer the functionality of the full Acrobat product.) I was writing a LONG message detailing all the suggestions I followed -- I saved it so I could restart Seamonkey, but who knows where it went! Anyway, thanks for all the ideas; I'm working through them one by one. So far the behavior is unchanged -- but I'm getting confident I'll figure it out! Not sure exactly which tip did the trick, but everything seems to be working fine now. I truly appreciate the knowledgeable folks in this newsgroup who are willing to help out total strangers! ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Adobe Acrobat and Reader
Every so often something changes and I have to re-figure out how to get PDF files from the web to open the way I want. Recently I upgraded from Acrobat 9 to Acrobat XI and things have gotten jumbled again. Now when I download a PDF file, it opens in a Seamonkey tab using Reader instead of Acrobat 9. I can save the file, then open it in Acrobat 9 or XI in a separate window, but I'd rather not do that over and over! I seem to remember that this behavior is controlled by the order in which Reader and Acrobat was installed -- is that correct? If so, it would seem PDFs should now open in a Seamonkey tab using Acrobat XI. I just disabled Reader in the Add-ons Manager (where perversely it identifies itself as Acrobat!). Now I'm asked if I want to open the file in Acrobat (in a separate window), which works, but is not my preferred behavior. Does anyone know how I can reset Acrobat XI to open in a Seamonkey tab? (BTW, I've tried some of the other alternatives (PDF.js, Foxit, Nitro PDF) but none of them offer the functionality of the full Acrobat product.) ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Adobe Acrobat and Reader
BIll Spikowski wrote: Every so often something changes and I have to re-figure out how to get PDF files from the web to open the way I want. Recently I upgraded from Acrobat 9 to Acrobat XI and things have gotten jumbled again. Now when I download a PDF file, it opens in a Seamonkey tab using Reader instead of Acrobat 9. I can save the file, then open it in Acrobat 9 or XI in a separate window, but I'd rather not do that over and over! I seem to remember that this behavior is controlled by the order in which Reader and Acrobat was installed -- is that correct? If so, it would seem PDFs should now open in a Seamonkey tab using Acrobat XI. I just disabled Reader in the Add-ons Manager (where perversely it identifies itself as Acrobat!). Now I'm asked if I want to open the file in Acrobat (in a separate window), which works, but is not my preferred behavior. Does anyone know how I can reset Acrobat XI to open in a Seamonkey tab? (BTW, I've tried some of the other alternatives (PDF.js, Foxit, Nitro PDF) but none of them offer the functionality of the full Acrobat product.) First off, I don't understand why you have the Reader installed at all. Why let the programs compete when you have a much more powerful program in Acrobat XI? So I recommend uninstalling the Reader and simplifying the problem and your life. Having done so, go to Edit | Preferences | Browser | Helper Applications and look at the prefs for PDF files. You'll see several different types because PDF files are served with several different MIME headers. If you want them to open in a SeaMonkey window, choose the option Use Adobe Acrobat (in SeaMonkey). If you insist on retaining the reader, you can also select that in the same way. You may also find it helpful to set a pref in Acrobat. I have version X, where it was at Edit | Preferences | Internet | [x] Display PDF in browser. That's supposed to prevent Acrobat from launching as a separate application to handle PDF links when you browse. Another Acrobat pref that may be relevant is at Edit | Preferences | General | Select Default PDF Handler. If you specify Acrobat XI, PDFs should only ever open in the Reader when you open them from within the Reader. But of course if you've uninstalled the Reader, there's no issue here. -- War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. -- Paul B. Gallagher ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Adobe Acrobat and Reader
On 7/17/2014 2:01 PM, BIll Spikowski wrote: Every so often something changes and I have to re-figure out how to get PDF files from the web to open the way I want. Recently I upgraded from Acrobat 9 to Acrobat XI and things have gotten jumbled again. Now when I download a PDF file, it opens in a Seamonkey tab using Reader instead of Acrobat 9. I can save the file, then open it in Acrobat 9 or XI in a separate window, but I'd rather not do that over and over! I seem to remember that this behavior is controlled by the order in which Reader and Acrobat was installed -- is that correct? If so, it would seem PDFs should now open in a Seamonkey tab using Acrobat XI. I just disabled Reader in the Add-ons Manager (where perversely it identifies itself as Acrobat!). Now I'm asked if I want to open the file in Acrobat (in a separate window), which works, but is not my preferred behavior. Does anyone know how I can reset Acrobat XI to open in a Seamonkey tab? (BTW, I've tried some of the other alternatives (PDF.js, Foxit, Nitro PDF) but none of them offer the functionality of the full Acrobat product.) Part of your problem might be the fact that the plugins for both Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader are .dll files with the same name: nppdf32.dll. It appears that Adobe Reader has two identical copies of that file, one in the Browser subfolder and one in the AIR subfolder. Adobe Acrobat has only one, in the Browser subfolder. On the SeaMonkey menu bar, select [Help About Plugins]. Find Adobe Acrobat on the page. Note that, no matter whether the plugin is really from Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader, it will be identified as Adobe Acrobat. Check the path to nppdf32.dll. If it is the path through Adobe Reader, that is the cause of your problem. In that case, try the following: 1. On the SeaMonkey menu bar, select [Edit Preferences]. 2. On the left side of the Preferences window, select [Browser Helper Applications]. 3. On the Helper Applications pane, locate Adobe Acrobat Document and select that line. 4. On the right side of Adobe Acrobat Document line, select the down-pointing triangle to get a selection list. Select Use Other. 5. On the Select Helper Application window, select the actual Adobe Acrobat application. If it is not in that window, select the Browse button, navigate to Adobe Acrobat, and select it. (What you really want is Adobe Acrobat (in SeaMonkey), but I don't know how to force that. You might try navigating to the nppdf32.dll file in Adobe Acrobat's Browser subfolder and selecting that.) 6. After selecting OK buttons to terminate the Preference window and its panes and subwindows, again go to [Help About Plugins] to see if the correct path to nppdf32.dll is displayed. -- David E. Ross http://www.rossde.com/ On occasion, I filter and ignore all newsgroup messages posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/1.0 user agent because of spam, flames, and trolling from that source. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
