Xref: alice comp.databases.oracle.tools:23398 Path: alice!news-feed.fnsi.net!cyclone.i1.net!newsfeed.enteract.com!news.wwa.com!not-for-mail From: "Charles L. Robinson" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.tools Subject: Re: Displaying output pdf files in I.E.4.0...Help Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 22:25:14 -0500 Organization: WorldWide Access - Midwestern Internet Services - www.wwa.com Lines: 35 Message-ID: <7f3m6u$bhm$1@hirame.wwa.com> References: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 I have found from sad experience that I.E. does not display mime type application/pdf correctly (embedded pdf). It seems to bring up the Acrobat reader but displays nothing. Further I have also found that displaying PDF files is somewhat flaky. It displays some but not all. Unfortunately, I have found no solution other than using Netscape for such purposes. -- Charlie Robinson Datec Inc. 333 W. Wacker Drive, Suite #1040 Chicago, IL 60606-1225 datec@wwa.com Jon wrote in message news:h6cR2.235$Kd2.3870@newsfeed.slurp.net... > Pdf files generated from Reports 3.0 have been embeded in html pages but the > Acrobat Reader and pdf file is only launched in the browser if I am running > Acrobat Reader 3.0. Newer versions of the reader 3.02 and 4.0 do not work > however. The reader seems to launch but then doues not display the file. I > have installed the activeX plugin for Acrobat Reader but it still won't > work. Has anyone else encountered this problem and found a solution? The > problem is the same on both Windows 95 and Windows NT workstation. Any help > or direction is greatly appreciated. > >