re: red crosses NOT images but pdf files
Tuesday, June 26, 2007 at 2:02 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(3943 messages posted)
|I click on a pdf file, and am taken to a page with a red cross.
| Reuven Ben-Daniel
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OK.
|Clicking on the red cross -.properties, confirms it is a pdf file.
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One assumes you mean RIGHT-clicking.
|Please tell me how I can get the pdf file.
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As long as you are right-clicking, select *Save As* (or *Save Link Target As*).
If it won't download, report it to the Webmaster of the site.
Once you have it DOWNLOADED to a known location on your drive,
double-click the *.PDF.[1]
As dhm noted, you must posess a program that can display PDF format
(BROWSERS don't).
Most pages that offer a PDF for download also contain a link to Adobe's reader.
There are other PDF readers:
http://www.google.com/search?
q=KPDF+XPDF+Acrobat+Ghostview+OR+GSView+Foxit+OR+Foxitsoft+OR+foxitsoftware
Note: This is a meta-list and contains some things that are Linux-only.
(Some of those are FAR superior to the Windoze offerings.)
[1] Opening a PDF within the browser has always seemed rather stupid to me.
You now have the browser's frame taking up screen space
--in addition to the reader app's frame.
Doing it in 2 steps (download; open) gives MUCH better results.
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