Re: Omniweb Acrobat 8 Plugin support

"Blake Garner" <[email protected]> Thu, 8 Feb 2007 12:59:05 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.omniweb
Message-ID <[email protected]>
You need to enable the AdobePDFViewer.plugin in the Omniweb plugin
Preferences. Then relaunch  omniweb and open a pdf inside the browser. The
plugin starts to load but fails to display the PDF.
blake-

On 2/8/07, Corentin Cras-Méneur <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Feb 8, 2007, at 13:31 , Blake Garner wrote:
>
> > Yes it was working with a beta version of Acrobat and Omniweb.
>
>
> Here is a quote from the OmniForums:
> > Originally Posted by Len Case
> > We at Omni would be happy to support the Adobe plugin--
> > unfortunately, they do not support us.
> >
> > This is an Adobe issue--they make assumptions in their library that
> > unless they are running in Safari, they are actually running in
> > Acrobat/Adobe Reader--this will cause problems for any other WebKit
> > application. The only reason that WebKit.app works is because it
> > actually runs Safari underneath.
>
>
> but it's true that is was a little while ago when the only version
> available was version 7.
> >
> > That's why I'm wondering if Omnigroup has taken a serous look at
> > the version 8 acrobat browser plugin as it works quite differently
> > thatn the version 7 plugin.
>
> I have Acrobat 8 installed and haven't yet seen a PDF display in OW.
> If indeed the plug-in is different and now offers a broader
> compatibility it could be good news…
>
>        Corentin
>
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