Actually, I am using 3.0 as a plugin. It doesn't work any better using the
full Acrobat setup. The whole app is incredibly buggy. Try printing a range
of pages, and take a look at the number on the start page - usually it is
well before the one you wanted!
A
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Chris Salter
> Sent: 31 August 1998 11:57
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Acrobat
>
>> Perhaps you are both using an elderly version of the Acrobat Reader. As
> well as a standalone reader, the latest version 3.0 (which AFAIR has
> been around a while) also installs plugins. The plugin when it is loaded
> following selection of a pdf URL and displaying of the file contents,
> has a save option in it in I think the usual place i.e. file menu. This
> is just as well as you cannot with some browsers choose to have a
> dialogue (save to disk or load reader app) at download time where
> plugins are installed. You can only wrest back control by deleting or
> renaming a plugin. Note, the standalone app does not have a save option
> because it is just a reader. This is possibly another reason your
> 'problem' in that you are using the standalone app and not the plugin
> although that could only mean you have it configured as a helper app
> which in which case you could modify the browser config to ask you what
> to do before downloading .pdf files.
>
> As to the format being useless like most tools it has its uses.
>
> Chris
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