Re: showcase on mac?

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

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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