[access-uk] Re: pDF documents in Internet Explorer

Correction, not all PDF documents can be viewed in HTML using Google.
Most can, but not all.
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:44:38 -0000, "Dave Taylor" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxx>
said:
> Hi,
> 
> Google always has a view in html link for all pdf documents. I think it 
> fetches them on request rather than storing them all.  I can't answer
> your 
> reader question, but in Firefox I can make it open PDF files into
> Kurzweil, 
> which is rather interesting!
> 
> Cheers
> Dave
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Douglas Harrison" <harrison1d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 4:45 PM
> Subject: [access-uk] pDF documents in Internet Explorer
> 
> 
> > On this system activating a link to a PDF file in Internet Explorer 
> > normally causes it to
> > download and display in Adobe Reader 7. However in the Internet section of 
> > Adobe Reader
> > 7.08 Preferences  I noticed an item "Display PDF in browser".  This is 
> > unchecked but it
> > appears that checking it has no effect - activating PDF links on a web 
> > page still results in
> > Adobe Reader displaying them.    Perhaps I am missing something simple 
> > here, but I find
> > this behaviour puzzling.  I wonder what purpose the check box serves.  Any 
> > ideas would be
> > much appreciated.
> >
> > Incidentally, the latest incarnation of Webbie (3.1.2) has a new item in 
> > the Options menu
> > (Fetch PDFs from Google).  From the manual it appears that Google stores 
> > HTML versions
> > of many PDF documents and if available Webbie displays the HTML version in 
> > text form.
> > Presumably these alternative versions could be displayed in IE too.
> >
> >
> > Douglas
> >
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