From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/44579 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Culleton Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: showcase on mac? Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 09:58:26 -0400 Organization: Able Indexers and Typesetters Message-ID: <200810040958.27237.john@wexfordpress.com> References: <48DF74DB.6060706@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223320339 12753 80.91.229.12 (6 Oct 2008 19:12:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 19:12:19 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Oct 06 21:13:16 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KmvVp-0000Jc-Uz for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:12:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F4070204D1; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 21:11:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 03775-05-91; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 21:11:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2632620085; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 10:53:13 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 075FD210A7 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 10:53:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 11768-01-80 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 10:52:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from QMTA06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.56]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE84520085 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2008 15:58:56 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from OMTA12.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.44]) by QMTA06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id NdkA1a0020xGWP856dyv2c; Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:58:55 +0000 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([69.143.98.130]) by OMTA12.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Ndyu1a00C2onJ853YdyvsE; Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:58:55 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=28uySAveVm4A:10 a=YEMqx4UAAAAA:8 a=U4BriyfjAAAA:8 a=ITjPdRScvUZ5zmsSDgMA:9 a=hjunJf3bS6K5Y9VBKXEA:7 a=CrG3wOJYfvuOQbOxuxXhDjhpBQcA:4 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 In-Reply-To: <48DF74DB.6060706@wxs.nl> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:44579 Archived-At: 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 I use Acrobat Reader 8 on my Slackware Linux 12.0 system with Firefox as the browser. The main page comes up but when I click on e.g., Manuals or Examples I get a File Not Found error. I experimented with Konqueror and Kpdf as the viewer. That seems to work, but slowly because of the download time. Il try to switch Firefox to Kpdf to see if that will work. -- John Culleton Precision Typesetting Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________