On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 14:26:14 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:18:13PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 11:13:12 -0700 > > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 12:45:58PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > > > > > > Oddly enough, when I try to download PDFs from the institution's site, > > > > the plugin doesn't pick them up, although IW recognizes them as "PDF > > > > documents", and "about:plugins" shows Acrobat as being installed. [IW > > > > only offers to open the PDFs with the default app (Evince) or to save > > > > them to disk]. > > > > > > > > pdfinfo gives: > > > > > > > > > Producer: iText by lowagie.com (r1.02b;p128) > > > > > CreationDate: Tue Oct 2 11:39:33 2007 > > > > > ModDate: Tue Oct 2 11:39:33 2007 > > > > > Tagged: no > > > > > Pages: 4 > > > > > Encrypted: no > > > > > > they're not encrypted, so can you open them with evince/xpdf? I'm not > > > > Yes. > > > > > sure what the problem is, I thought you were just trying to cross the > > > hurdle of getting them to allow d/l. Or do you need to confirm the > > > signatures? > > > > The main hurdle was indeed getting it to just give me the PDFs, but if > > they are indeed signed, I'd certainly like to be able to verify > > the signatures, and I'm also just curious now as to why the plugin isn't > > being called for these PDFs as it is for others. > > with the binary in another location, maybe the plugin is failing and > control passes on to another mechanism within iceweasel. Try running > iceweasel from the command line (or check ~/.xsession-errors) to see > if anything pertinent shows up. also, I don't know how iceweasel > handles these things, but if there is a mime entry for .pdf that > points to evince, maybe those get called before the plugins? heck, > maybe the pluginb just doesn't work, too... The plugin is working; when I access a PDF at another site, the Acrobat EULA comes up (and I decline). The other site's url ends in '.pdf', while my FI's has some parameters after the filename; I don't know whether that could have anything to do with it. > A Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
