[BNM] Adobe reader or PDFs and Mac/OSX

[Jason Bailey]

Hello,
Does my previous email make sense to anyone. I'm emailing again as it was 
sent while BNM was down.

Thanks
Jason

> 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?