Re: launching a PDF from a link

2018-06-28 Thread Richard Porter
On 28 Jun 2018 Jim Nagel wrote: > When you click the link for a Jpeg (or various other types of file), > the file opens immediately. Why does PDF behave differently? What is > the mechanism involved? I think that offering a save dialogue is the norm. Netsurf processes JPEG, GIF and PNG files

Re: launching a PDF from a link

2018-06-28 Thread Tim Hill
In article , Richard Porter wrote: > On 28 Jun 2018 Jim Nagel wrote: > > When you click the link for a Jpeg (or various other types of file), > > the file opens immediately. Why does PDF behave differently? What > > is the mechanism involved? > I think that offering a save dialogue is the nor

Re: launching a PDF from a link

2018-06-28 Thread Gavin Wraith
In message <570f5c0542...@timil.com> Tim Hill wrote: >In article , Richard Porter > wrote: >I'm expecting to find a utility somewhere which will monitor a specific >folder and filer_run anything saved there but having no luck so far. Talk of monitoring implies something that runs as a