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Hans Hagen said this at Thu, 19 Dec 2002 16:26:08 +0100:
you need either the full acrobat or indeed the browser plugin; i'm surprised that this is not available on os-x since the mac is a pretty important platform for adobe users, isn't it? is there a reader 4 plugin?
That would be the problem, then. Well, *I* think the Mac is pretty important, but Adobe is put in a strange position with Mac OS X. DisplayPDF runs throughout the OS, using Apple's own implementation. A side-effect of this is that any Mac OS X program can generate a PDF file as easily as it prints, taking away most users' need for a full version of Acrobat. I'm no print-industry expert, but I suspect that this puts Adobe in a confusing situation in what to support in the new OS. So, there's no MacOSX-native Adobe Acrobat plug-in, and the third-party one that's available doesn't have any worthwhile web features. I generally prefer to do my viewing in AcroRead, anyway... Sorry if I wandered off-topic. adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Computing Dept, Lancaster University +44(0)1524/594.537 Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/593.608 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-