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Subject:Re: inter document pdf links on web for mac From:"Kat Nagel, MasterWork Consulting" <mlists -at- masterworkconsulting -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 7 Apr 2003 16:01:34 -0400
I run both Mac and Windows operating systems on various computers in
my office. Normally, I don't have any trouble accessing and reading
PDFs from either web sites or CDs on either operating system.
On the rare occasions when I get a "can't find file" error message on
a linked PDF from a web page, it seems to be a bug in the IE or
Netscape plug-in rather than a true failure to locate the file.
So far I've always been able to get around it by doing a "click and
hold" (Mac OS) or a "right-click" (Win) on the link. This pops up a
menu with several options. One of the options is "Download link to
disk". If I select that option, the browser will save whatever is
hooked to that link directly to my hard drive, *without* invoking the
plug-in.
You might test this on your system and, if it works, add a sentence
to the web page suggesting the work-around in cases where a user has
difficulty accessing the file.
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Kat Nagel
Owner, MasterWork Consulting Services
Phone: (585) 820-4045 Fax: (585) 244-3565
Business: katnagel -at- masterworkconsulting -dot- com
Personal: katnagel -at- bluefrognet -dot- net
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