If I receive a file with the pdf extension as an email attachment how can I read it without printing it? If I just double-click it all the codes are displayed and it is unreadable.
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BillW
How to View .PDF Files
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Re: How to View .PDF Files
Which application opens the PDF file when you double-click it?
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Hans
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Re: How to View .PDF Files
You need a PDF reader application. There are lots to chose from ranging from the original Abobe Reader, through numerous third party dedicated PDF readers like Foxit to built-in viewers within Internet browsers, e.g. Firefox.BillW wrote:If I receive a file with the pdf extension... ...how can I read it without printing it?
Ken
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Re: How to View .PDF Files
Sumatra is another, free, stand-alone .pdf reader (website sumatrapdfreader.org) - recommended to me in the Lounge (by Hans, I think) many moons ago. Have used it ever since.
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Keith
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Re: How to View .PDF Files
Sumatra has the downsides of being
a) yellow
b) not having enough buttons to Do Useful Things, but hiding them away under "Ctrl+" key sequences, requiring reference to the manual
"Being yellow" can be fixed!
PS I am patiently waiting for the move of Eileen's Lounge to a New Server!
Presumably we will also have to wait patiently for the DNS information to propagate after the move?
a) yellow
b) not having enough buttons to Do Useful Things, but hiding them away under "Ctrl+" key sequences, requiring reference to the manual
"Being yellow" can be fixed!
PS I am patiently waiting for the move of Eileen's Lounge to a New Server!
Presumably we will also have to wait patiently for the DNS information to propagate after the move?
John Gray
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"(or one of the team)" - how your appointment letter indicates you won't be seeing the Consultant...
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Re: How to View .PDF Files
The move will probably start soon today. DNS propagation is a lot faster nowadays than in the noughties.
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Hans
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Re: How to View .PDF Files
If you are using gmail, then you can open the PDF from clicking on it. without downloading and printing.
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Re: How to View .PDF Files
Thanks,
I don't normally use Gmail but I will try using that technique in my FastMail account and see if it also works there. I imagine it does but I no longer have a PDF file to try it on!
Thanks,
Bill Wilson
I don't normally use Gmail but I will try using that technique in my FastMail account and see if it also works there. I imagine it does but I no longer have a PDF file to try it on!
Thanks,
Bill Wilson
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Re: How to View .PDF Files
When I click a PDF attachment in Fastmail (using Firefox browser), it opens the PDF file in Firefox, this is odd because I have configured Firefox to use my PDF editor for opening PDF files, and that is what happens when I clock a PDF in other browser windows
StuartR