Acrobat Reader plugin on FC3

[Scott]

Matthew Miller wrote:

>On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 05:51:17PM +0000, WipeOut wrote:
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>>>Personally, I hate the acrobat plugin. I have no need to have other apps
>>>running inside my browser window -- just send me the PDF, and I'll look at
>>>it in the appropriate application.
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>>Thats really doing things the hard way.. So many sites use PDF's now for 
>>brochures and docs and various other things that to have it just open in 
>>the browser really makes it simple and quick..
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>Except for the part where the browser becomes unreactive while this foreign
>viewer is trying to load its data (maybe crashing the whole thing). I think
>it's simpler and quicker to have the dedicated application come up.
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I hear you on that one.  I hate reading PDFs in a web browser and get 
annoyed at sites that don't warn you that the link you are about to 
click on is a PDF file.

>Anyway, my point isn't really to argue over this preference, but to explain
>why it's nice to have the plugin separate -- it makes it an option
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As a side note Acrobat for X is just plain ugly.  Before I disabled PDF 
plugins entirely  I believe I was using GPDF to view PDF files within 
Firefox  it worked great and looked much better than Acrobat Reader.

Just my $.02

Scott