PDF handling broke
Ray Heindl
than using Acrobat Reader 5.0. Naturally it couldn't do so, but just
displayed a page of gibberish. So I set it back to "open with default
application", but Opera still tries to open PDFs itself. If I clear
the cache, a PDF will open normally (with Acrobat), but if I try to
reload a PDF that's already cached, Opera tries to open it. How can I
fix this?
On a related note, before I broke it, when I opened a PDF, Opera would
first open a blank window, then the PDF would open in Acrobat. Why is
the blank window there, and is there any way to keep it from coming up?
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> the cache, a PDF will open normally (with Acrobat), but if I try to
> reload a PDF that's already cached, Opera tries to open it. How can I
> fix this?
Er, fix what? Clearing the cache has fixed it, hasn't it?
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Ray Heindl
> I made the mistake of telling Opera (7.54) to open PDFs itself
> rather than using Acrobat Reader 5.0. Naturally it couldn't do
> so, but just displayed a page of gibberish. So I set it back to
> "open with default application", but Opera still tries to open
> PDFs itself. If I clear the cache, a PDF will open normally (with
> Acrobat), but if I try to reload a PDF that's already cached,
> Opera tries to open it. How can I fix this?
After doing some more testing, I find this problem only occurs on a
brokerage site that uses some weird way to open files. Normal sites
don't have the problem, so I guess a note to the webmaster is in order.
Ray Heindl
>> If I clear
>> the cache, a PDF will open normally (with Acrobat), but if I try
>> to reload a PDF that's already cached, Opera tries to open it.
>> How can I fix this?
>
> Er, fix what? Clearing the cache has fixed it, hasn't it?
Not really. Once a pdf is in the cache, I can't reopen it without
deleting it from the cache. But as I said in my other followup, it's
only one site that has the problem, so it's probably not anything wrong
with Opera.
Lee Harvey
Sounds like it.
While viewing the gibberish, you should be able to view Opera's "Info"
panel. I suspect the MIME type returned by the server is not correct, or
else they're using some uncommon file extension for PDF files.
Just some ideas to help you isolate the problem before contacting the
webmaster.
Ray Heindl
Thanks. I don't see anything obvious (at least to me) in the info
panel. It has the MIME type as "application/pdf", as expected. The
only odd thing is the "Encoding from server" is "- not supplied - ()",
but I suppose that shouldn't matter for a PDF. The URL and the local
cache file both have extensions of ".pdf".
Steven V. Gunhouse
The blank window is because the site tells Opera to open links in a new
page. Opera obediently opens a new page, then discovers the link is for a
PDF and sends it to Adobe Reader. They obviously expect people to use the
plugin instead of the standalone reader.
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Steven V. Gunhouse
<vortre...@yaxhoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the explanation. Is there any way to tell Opera to ignore
> the new-window request? I tried the Acrobat plugin for a while, but
> decided I didn't like it for some reason.
>
No, sorry. Opera follows that sort of stuff when present. Several people
have posted in opera.wishlist or the Wish-list forum asking for it, but
Opera doesn't say what they are or are not working on ... first you'll
hear about it is when they release a test version that includes it (which
the current test version does not).
Richard Grevers
<svgun...@ameritech.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 21:27:01 +0000 (UTC), Ray Heindl
> <vortre...@yaxhoo.com> wrote:
>
>> "Steven V. Gunhouse" <svgun...@ameritech.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 03:07:59 +0000 (UTC), Ray Heindl
>>> <vortre...@yaxhoo.com> wrote:
>>>> On a related note, before I broke it, when I opened a PDF, Opera
>>>> would first open a blank window, then the PDF would open in
>>>> Acrobat. Why is the blank window there, and is there any way to
>>>> keep it from coming up?
>>
>>> The blank window is because the site tells Opera to open links in
>>> a new page. Opera obediently opens a new page, then discovers the
>>> link is for a PDF and sends it to Adobe Reader. They obviously
>>> expect people to use the plugin instead of the standalone reader.
>>
>> Thanks for the explanation. Is there any way to tell Opera to ignore
>> the new-window request? I tried the Acrobat plugin for a while, but
>> decided I didn't like it for some reason.
>>
>
> No, sorry. Opera follows that sort of stuff when present.
IIRC, doesn't right-click ->open override the specified target?
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