@sugis: Any way to display PDFs?

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Sun-Glasses

@sugis: Any way to display PDFs?

Post by Sun-Glasses » 2016-12-01, 13:33

Hello to sugis and everyone else using a Mac here. ;-)

Now, since Pale Moon 27 came out I wasn't able to display PDFs in-browser due to the PDF.js component being removed. Downloading every PDF to the hard drive is not a good workflow to be honest. Can anyone confirm that the Adobe Acrobat plugin works? I am a Skim user actually, but Skim doesn't provide a plugin. Other than that I have no idea what could work in this case... Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
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sugis

Re: @sugis: Any way to display PDFs?

Post by sugis » 2016-12-01, 18:53

I haven't looked into this much. You might get more exposure on the general forums -- this is not a Mac specific problem. Probably the "right" solution is that eventually a PDF reader will be packaged as an extension.
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maxkalashnikov

Re: @sugis: Any way to display PDFs?

Post by maxkalashnikov » 2017-02-06, 20:51

I recall there was a proprietary/closed-source plugin (specific to Macs) for earlier versions of Firefox. It might also be possible to use an older version of the official Adobe plugin. I'll try to see if I can find them in my old software archives.

These days, pdf.js is so unreliable, I end up opening most PDFs in in Preview anyway (which means it gets written to the filesystem). I suspect that write happens anyway, unless you have all disk caching turned off.
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LimboSlam

Re: @sugis: Any way to display PDFs?

Post by LimboSlam » 2017-02-07, 06:07

I'm not a Mac user, so I'm sure if this is what you're looking for: https://addons.palemoon.org/extensions/moon-pdf-viewer/.
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Sun-Glasses

Re: @sugis: Any way to display PDFs?

Post by Sun-Glasses » 2017-02-07, 07:55

I'm not a Mac user, so I'm sure if this is what you're looking for: https://addons.palemoon.org/extensions/moon-pdf-viewer/.
That fixed it for me. Thanks LimboSlam.
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