Re: Websites which insist upon Adobe Acrobat
On 2009-09-02 23:44 +0200, Charles wrote:
> I have run across several websites lately which insist they cannot
> download PDF files to you because you don't have Adobe Acrobat
> installed.
To say the truth, I cannot remember having ever met such a website
myself. Everyone serves PDF files as MIME type application/pdf, and my
browser offers the choice between saving them and opening them in an
external PDF viewer.
> I had a look in /usr/bin and there are symlinks named Acrobat,
> Acroread, Adobe Reader, and Adobe Reader 8.1.3. All except Acroread
> point to /usr/bin/evince.
> How can I "fool" these websites (including
> the Quebec government site) into thinking Adobe is on my machine?
Could you give an example so that we can reproduce your problem?
Sven
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