Re: Websites which insist upon Adobe Acrobat
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On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:15:05 +0200
Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
> 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.
Not everyone.
When the cursor is over the item all you see (at the bottom of the
firefox screen) is javascript commands...not the usual http:// stuff
(usually ending in whatever.pdf. When you click on the item, that's
when it tells you you need Adobe..and even offers a link to download
it :)
>
> > 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?
>
The porition of the site on which I had the problem is my personal
email from the government. I just checked and there are areas where
forms are offered to the public in the normal http://whatever.pdf
format. Those I can right click on and view or download. But the
password-protected email section doesn't offer that and that's where
the site insists upon Adobe. I ended up going to my wife's machine
(Windows XP) and reading the mail there. Maybe the site is looking at
the operating system ??
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Charles
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