[BNM] Adobe reader or PDFs and Mac/OSX

[Jason Bailey]

Hello,

A colleague using a PPC mac asked me about this and I'm not sure if it's 
related to PPC or Intel macs but thought I'd mention it; just in case.

Anyway on a PC if you view a particular PDF you are first asked to 
authenticate (browser LDAP or something- can't remember- a session is 
created probably???) and then the pdf opens within the browser (FF and IE) 
as its using the adobe plugin. You can then click on parts of the PDDF for 
more info requiring authentication/session info (probably).

On a mac (using preview) if you want a view a pdf a new application is 
opened called preview. This is losing the authentication stuff required to 
view the pdfs. Is there a way of getting pdfs to be viewed within the 
browser?

I wanted to try this myself but i could not install adobe reader 8 on the 
mac for some reason. I installed it and then the installer would say "i 
need to do some downloading to finish" or something and fail with an 
"unable to contact server" (error -128). Annoyingly adobe reader seems to 
require 128 meg of ram to work as when I search for this error it's always 
to do with 128 meg ram. Note to self: Must remember not to create error 
numbers which are powers of 2! (that's an exclamation not a factorial)

Can anyone tell me if they hav got a pdf on a mac viewable inside the 
browser; using a pdf plugin. I was testing this on my macbook pro last 
night but got stuck with the adobe download manager so was looking for a 
full macintel install rather than something that requires .

does this make sense?

Thanks
Jason
p.s. note I'm a digest reader and google groups may not be updating quickly 
and the BNM archive does'nt have Jan 2007 yet, so feel free to cc me.