In message <a6982aba50.michaelb...@michael.beaverbell.co.uk> you wrote:
> In message <50ba21fe2ach...@chris-johnson.org.uk> > cj <ch...@chris-johnson.org.uk> wrote: > > > In article <a61a1dba50....@nails.ukonline.co.uk>, > > Jim Nagel <nets...@abbeypress.co.uk> wrote: > >> when the results of a Google search include a PDF, Google offers to > >> display it as plain text. but it comes out as nonsense in Netsurf > >> (r9629): all the lines of text seem to be piled on top of one another. > > >> at least in this example: > > >> http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:dr7rk6-FAmcJ:www.mendip.gov.uk/Do > >> wnload.asp%3Fpath%3D%252FDocuments%252FRegeneration%252Fcar%2Bparks%25 > >> 2FGlastonbury%2BCarnival%2BRoad%2BClosure%2BOrder%2B2009.pdf+Glastonbu > >> ry+carnival+traffic&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk& > > > True, but if you SHIFT-click on the link displayed above the > > nonsense, the pdf file downloads and can be read in e.g. !PDF without > > any problem. > > I didn't know that. Thank you! > > Michael Bell > > > I'm puzzeled. whent I click on that link I don't get any 'piling' (Netsurf 2.1) and clicking the link at the top of the page (not SHIFT-click) downloads the PDF. But I see with r9640 (26 Aug 2009 11:30) I do get the 'piling' but still do not need to SHIFT-click to get the PDF. -- Erving
