From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/44606 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: showcase on mac? Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:32:33 +0200 Message-ID: <48EB1091.1010306@elvenkind.com> References: <48DF74DB.6060706@wxs.nl> <200810040958.27237.john@wexfordpress.com> 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 1223364875 31472 80.91.229.12 (7 Oct 2008 07:34:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 07:34:35 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Oct 07 09:35:33 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 1Kn765-0000VT-Hu for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:35:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 158261FD48; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 09:34:04 +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 12759-07-5; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 09:33:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 785061FD26; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 09:33:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B27691FB30 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 09:33:10 +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 13782-01 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 09:32:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from plane.elvenkind.com (elvenknd.xs4all.nl [82.95.203.226]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CDC21FD37 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 09:32:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from glenlivet.elvenkind.com (glenlivet.elvenkind.com [10.10.0.6]) by plane.elvenkind.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CCDA80416E3 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 09:32:33 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080305) In-Reply-To: <200810040958.27237.john@wexfordpress.com> 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:44606 Archived-At: 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________