Unable to View PDFs on Lion & Mtn Lion
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Unable to View PDFs on Lion & Mtn Lion
I have two old Macs. One runs Lion and the other Mtn Lion. On both Macs, I have installed Palemoon 29.1.0 for the Mac and Adobe Acrobat Reader v11.0.23 (which I believe is the last version that runs on Lion / Mtn Lion).
In the Add-ons Manager, Palemoon shows the Adobe Acrobat Reader Plugin installed and "always" activated.
But whenever I try to view a PDF within Palemoon, nothing happens. I just see a blank screen. The plugin does not seem to work.
Any ideas?
If it is not possible to make the plugin to work, is there a way for Palemoon to automatically open up the PDF in Adobe Reader?
In the Add-ons Manager, Palemoon shows the Adobe Acrobat Reader Plugin installed and "always" activated.
But whenever I try to view a PDF within Palemoon, nothing happens. I just see a blank screen. The plugin does not seem to work.
Any ideas?
If it is not possible to make the plugin to work, is there a way for Palemoon to automatically open up the PDF in Adobe Reader?
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Re: Unable to View PDFs on Lion & Mtn Lion
This is probably not the answer you want but if I were you then I'd just use pdf.js
Re: Unable to View PDFs on Lion & Mtn Lion
Macintosh is discontinued. See: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=26381
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Re: Unable to View PDFs on Lion & Mtn Lion
Ah yes, that too ![Razz :P](./images/smilies/icon_razz.gif)
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Re: Unable to View PDFs on Lion & Mtn Lion
Preferences -> Applications - you should be able to set it to open in your system-set PDF reader there.
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Re: Unable to View PDFs on Lion & Mtn Lion
Thanks Moonchild. But I suspect that the real problem lies with this Preference setting.
Under Preferences -> Applications on both of my Palemoon for the Mac installations, "Portable Document Format (PDF)" is NOT explicitly listed as a content type. I see the following however:
- Adobe Acrobat FDF document
Adobe XML Data Package File
Adobe Form Client Data File
There is a "Preview Document" document type listed under Preferences -> Applications. On the Mac, Apple's Preview App can open and display PDF files. It was set to Adobe Acrobat NPAPI Plugin. (But that setting did not work). I changed it to PREVIEW to see if Preview would open up when I clicked on a PDF file within Palemoon. But again nothing happened. I just see a blank Palemoon window.
I suspect what I really need to change if the "PDF" document type but it is not listed in Preferences -> Applications in Palemoon for the Mac.
Is there a text file containing these content types that I can modify and add the PDF content type? Or is this a software bug fix (which I realize is unlikely to happen now because Mac OS X is being officially dropped as a supported OS).
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Re: Unable to View PDFs on Lion & Mtn Lion
Those types are listed based on what is registered in the O.S. - unfortunately I can't help you with that on Mac as I don't know that registration is done in MacOS.
What you should be able to do though is at least disable the PDF plug-in in your add-on manager.
Open the add-on manager, -> Plugins -> PDF plugin -> click the "Disable" button. That should prevent the plugin from being used so the browser is then forced to use an external program. You should be able to pick the program to use on next loading a PDF.
What you should be able to do though is at least disable the PDF plug-in in your add-on manager.
Open the add-on manager, -> Plugins -> PDF plugin -> click the "Disable" button. That should prevent the plugin from being used so the browser is then forced to use an external program. You should be able to pick the program to use on next loading a PDF.
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Re: Unable to View PDFs on Lion & Mtn Lion
Thanks Moonchild.
I was finally able to get Palemoon to open up Adobe Reader when I clicked a PDF link on a webpage.
I had to do two steps:
But unfortunately, when the "Preview" content type is associated with the Adobe Reader NPAPI Plugin (and the Adobe Reader NPAPI Plugin is activated via the Add-Ons Manager), PDF's do NOT open up in Palemoon. One just sees blank windows.
The only workaround is as described above which forces Palemoon to open up PDF's in Adobe Reader.
I was finally able to get Palemoon to open up Adobe Reader when I clicked a PDF link on a webpage.
I had to do two steps:
- 1. Disable the Adobe Reader NPAPI Plugin via the Add-Ons Manager, and
2. Change the setting in Preferences -> Applications for the "Preview" content type from "Save File" to "Adobe Reader"
But unfortunately, when the "Preview" content type is associated with the Adobe Reader NPAPI Plugin (and the Adobe Reader NPAPI Plugin is activated via the Add-Ons Manager), PDF's do NOT open up in Palemoon. One just sees blank windows.
The only workaround is as described above which forces Palemoon to open up PDF's in Adobe Reader.