Re: PDF's loading in the browser window

Does your company have a method of workstation deployment..

Microsoft's IE Administration Kit can help.  Regarding view vs. download.
If the browser can not find an association for a file extension it will
default to download.

Go to My Computer and look in the menu until you find file type.  Compare
the settings for PDF in one that is working and one that is not.   Reloading
Adobe Reader will set up this association for you.

Do you have desktop support there?  Are they responsible for making all the
apps standard accross the browsers.?????


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Clarke" <Michael.Clarke(at)harpercollins.com.au>
To: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 5:20 AM
Subject: PDF's loading in the browser window


> Hi,
> I am looking after an intranet, NT4/Win95 with variously IE 4, and on some
> computers PDFs will open up in the designated frame but on others they try
> to download. Most users are running crippled versions of IE4, ie., the
> Security and Advanced tabs in the Internet Options window have been
disabled
> and they are not able to download files or run ActiveX. This means that
they
> can not download the PDF file from the Intranet page either so they can
not
> access the PDF at all. I believe I am looking for a setting to tell IE4 to
> view the PDF rather than try to download it. On an uncrippled version I
have
> clicked all Advanced settings to 'enable' but no luck. I have looked in
the
> settings of Acrobat Reader but can not find anything there either. Would
> anyone know off hand?
> TIA
> Mike
>

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