pdf file question

[Collins Richey]

On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 15:01:27 +0200, Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se> wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 14:46, Collins Richey wrote:
> > On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 12:04:16 +0200, Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 17:24, Collins Richey wrote:
> > >
> > > > They read OK for me with firefox 0.9.3 and acroread 5.0.
> > > >
> > > > HTH,
> > >
> > > Not really...
> > >
> >
> > So, what are your system, browser, acroread details, and what are the
> > results you see?
> 
> SUSE 9.0 Pro, firefox 0.9.3 (binary from mozilla, not local compile),
> Acroread 5.0.9
> 
> It seems that whatever I get when I download a PDF in firefox is not
> what the source was. Only for PDF. I get gzip'd binaries just fine.
> 
> I suspect firefox. In the preferences, under downloads, it says to open
> PDFs in the 'Default application'. However, when I download them, I
> override this and tell the download to save to a disk file. Something
> here is screwy. If I just let firefox start Acroread, I get the same
> problem.
> 

A big hmm!

We have the same level acroread and firefox setup. I get normal
results either invoking acroread directly by clicking on the link or
by downloading the file (my mime settings cause this to be stored
automatically as *.pdf) and invoking via file:///...*.pdf.

Only three possibilities that I can see:

1. kernel difference (I'm on 2.6.8.3)
2. something screwed up in SUSE
3. I've gotten (occasionally) unusual results in the past using
binaries from mozilla. My firefox is built from source. You might try
getting a current firefox nightly build.
4. a final thought:maybe your mime settings for firefox are screwed up

Alas, I can't even say HTH.

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