Re: showcase on mac?

[Stanley Hudson <stanley.hudson.48@gmail.com>]

I had the same problem with Safari. I am not a fan of Adobe  
installations and all the extra stuff that goes on with them, but  
installing Reader did fix it.

Stan

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On Sep 28, 2008, at 9:05 AM, Frans Goddijn wrote:

> When I click on the showcase link, my Firefox 3.0.3 _downloads_ de
> PDF, doesn't show it in the browser. I then double click the
> downloaded file, Adobe Reader 8.1.2 starts up and if I click a link,
> it says "There was an error opening this document. This file cannot be
> found."
>
> I deleted the Reader and downloaded/installed Reader 9.0.0 from the
> Adobe website. This time no error message but also no action when I
> click on any link but "quit"
>
> Still, it must be something on my machine, since others don't have
> this problem.
>
> Best
>
> Frans
>
>
>
> On 28 sep 2008, at 14:13, 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
>
>
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