Re: showcase on mac?

["Charles P. Schaum" <verbo.solo@sbcglobal.net>]

On my Mac I use the PDF Browser Plugin by Manfred Schubert
www.schubert-it.com
That makes everything work right on the web for Mac. And the browser has
personal as well as commercial licenses.

On Ubuntu Linux things work fine on the web. I still run (and shall
continue to run) Windows 98 for me and Windows XP for the "family"
computer. Thus, I don't do much TeXing on Windows.

OTOH, the Debian-ish nature of Ubuntu allows one to DL the
contect-nonfree pkg, but everything is gzipped. So either use evince or
gunzip everything. Evince doesn't allow links at all, giving an "unknown
mime type." If you gunzip and use Adobe Reader, some links create "file
not found" errors but there is slightly more functionality.

I always thought it was a file hierarchy thing.

BTW, Free/PC-BSD is an environment where you can easily patch ports to
let you install kile and the like without depending directly on a
packaged TeX distro, allowing easy use of the tl-installer and the
minimals as well. If KDE 4 is more stable in the next release cycle or
if I remain a glutton for Gnome punishment, I may go that direction
again, lack of Flash (except under Wine) or not.

Charles

On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 09:32 +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> 
> John Culleton wrote:
> > On Sunday 28 September 2008 08:13:15 am Hans Hagen wrote:
> >> Frans Goddijn wrote:
> >>> Willi Egger helped me get a minimal install working on my mac and
> >>> I'm working on a collection of columns illustrated with pictures.
> >>> It's been a while since I used Context so I want to download some
> >>> basic manuals to refresh my memory and learn new things.
> >>>
> >>> On my Windows machine I can view/navigate and download manuals
> >>> from the http://www.pragma-ade.nl/showcase.pdf
> >>> page, but on my mac this doesn't work. In the Safari browser,
> >>> nothing happens if I click on the "manuals" link. In Firefox, the
> >>> showcase PDF is downloaded and I can open it. After allowing the
> >>> file to go full screen, I get error messages for the links "there
> >>> was an error opening this document/ the file cannot be found',
> >>> execpt on the "quit" link ;-)
> >>>
> >>> Is there a simple thing I should change to make it work on the
> >>> mac as well?
> >> doesn't acrobat work? (the mac pdf browser is somewhat limited);
> >> best use acrobat reader as plugin
> 
> On my linux with AR8.1 as plugin to firefox using showcase.pdf works
> fine, but only via the browser window, and I installed the AR rpm
> from Adobe directly because the one in my distro (Mandriva 2008.1)
> was missing key plugins, "weblink" in particular.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Taco
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