One of the things that has really bugged me about my iMac - using Firefox as my browser - is that at the end of my day my screen looks like a garbage dump as a consequence of Firefox not reading PDF files within the browser & downloading them to the desktop to be read by Adobe Reader.

I believe Safari will read PDF files from within the browser, but was reluctant to change browsers, ....

.... anyway I just stumbled on a generic PDF plugin which claims to work in most browsers.

Certainly it works just great with my Firefox 1.0.2 - if I am not deceived the visual impact/clarity seems even better than Adobe Reader! There is also some very nice touches like you can enable facing pages & apprently even fill forms.

Maybe this is very old news to AppleTalk readers ... but I am soooo delighted to have a solution to this issue.

Those that are interested, ... have a look at http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginpdf/

Let me know what you think - or let me know of anything better!

Im sure not everyone knows about this as I didnt. Im an amateur still when it comes to Apple hardwareand MAC stuff. Ill be giving it a go later.

my mac opens PDFs in preview... i shall check out your find, Flinders! thanks!


regarding thinking something is old news, if you use the forum search tool and come up with nothing about your query or discovery, go ahead like you did and post it up!
Appletalk members are joining up coming from wide-ranging mac backgrounds and experiences - the chance that you'll teach something new to someone is quite good!


-Tom