having trouble again opening pdf files

Trying to use chrome with no success.
Using hp notebook and windows 10.

Someone here gave me the steps to take, but I can’t find my way back to
them.
TIA

On 02/25/2018 01:39 AM, Anonymous wrote:

Trying to use chrome with no success.
Using hp notebook and windows 10.

Someone here gave me the steps to take, but I can’t find my way back to
them.
TIA


The pdf viewer that comes with w10 stinks.

Got to adobe.com and download and install Acrobat Reader.

Or better yet, go to
https://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudioviewer/
and install their free viewer. It is excellent.

On Sun, 25 Feb 2018 03:16:39 -0800, T wrote:

On 02/25/2018 01:39 AM, Anonymous wrote:

Trying to use chrome with no success.
Using hp notebook and windows 10.

Someone here gave me the steps to take, but I can’t find my way back to
them.
TIA


The pdf viewer that comes with w10 stinks.

Got to adobe.com and download and install Acrobat Reader.

Or better yet, go to
https://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudioviewer/
and install their free viewer. It is excellent.



There are several choices of pdf readers. Even though it's the most
popular, I don't like and recommend against Adobe Reader. I use and
recommend Sumatra Reader, and Foxit Reader is also good. They are both
free.

On 02/25/2018 9:30 AM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Sun, 25 Feb 2018 03:16:39 -0800, T wrote:

On 02/25/2018 01:39 AM, Anonymous wrote:

Trying to use chrome with no success.
Using hp notebook and windows 10.

Someone here gave me the steps to take, but I can’t find my way back to
them.
TIA


The pdf viewer that comes with w10 stinks.

Got to adobe.com and download and install Acrobat Reader.

Or better yet, go to
https://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudioviewer/
and install their free viewer. It is excellent.



There are several choices of pdf readers. Even though it's the most
popular, I don't like and recommend against Adobe Reader. I use and
recommend Sumatra Reader, and Foxit Reader is also good. They are both
free.


In agreement with Ken, Sumatra and Foxit are A1, Adobe is Out.

Rene

T wrote:
On 02/25/2018 01:39 AM, Anonymous wrote:

Trying to use chrome with no success.
Using hp notebook and windows 10.

Someone here gave me the steps to take, but I can’t find my way back to
them.
TIA


The pdf viewer that comes with w10 stinks.

Got to adobe.com and download and install Acrobat Reader.

Or better yet, go to
https://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudioviewer/
and install their free viewer. It is excellent.


Thank you, sir.
Got the free one at qoppa.com. Perfect for my purposes.

The pdf viewer that comes with w10 stinks.

Got to adobe.com and download and install Acrobat Reader.

Or better yet, go to
https://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudioviewer/
and install their free viewer. It is excellent.


Thank you, sir.
Got the free one at qoppa.com. Perfect for my purposes.

Be advised that Win 10 has (sometiems) the bad habbit of reseting the
preset PDF viewer, so don't be surprised.

"Anonymous" wrote

| https://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudioviewer/
| and install their free viewer. It is excellent.

| Thank you, sir.
| Got the free one at qoppa.com. Perfect for my purposes.
|

I haven't tried that, but it's an 86 MB download!
PDF XChange Viewer allows for editing editable fields,
annotation and pasting. It's only about 8 MB. For
plain viewing, Sumatra is only about 5 MB. It's very
quick and light, and by leaving out scripting functionality
it's also safer than most other viewers. Sumatra is
all I use unless I need to edit a PDF.

PDF Studio Viewer may or may not be good, but
it's clearly very bloated. I'm not going to try it
personally because it's in an InstallShield package
that I can't get open, so I have no idea what's
inside.

Anonymous wrote:
Trying to use chrome with no success.
Using hp notebook and windows 10.

Someone here gave me the steps to take, but I can’t find my way back to
them.
TIA

Since you're anonymous, we can't find you either. There is no
search-able archive for the Windows10 alt group. Thanks, Google!

*******

"PDFs don't open automatically in Chrome"

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/6213030?hl=en

"Open PDFs in Chrome

1. On your computer, open Chrome.
2. At the top right, click More More and then Settings.
3. At the bottom, click Advanced.
4. Under "Privacy and security," click Content settings.
5. Near the bottom, click PDF documents.
6. Turn off Open PDFs using a different application.

Chrome will now open PDFs automatically when you click them.
"

In the URL bar, you would type this to get there instantly.
Unfortunately, that interface (in my example install here)
only offers "Open in Chrome" behavior or "Download File" behavior.
The slider doesn't have any option for what happens on right-click

chrome://settings/content/pdfDocuments

Chrome also accepts this as the lead-off to internals of various sorts.
I wasn't able to stumble on the setting by accident, by starting here.
But this is for future reference.

chrome://chrome-urls/

This is hardly what I'd call "putting the user in control".

Most browsers (somewhere) have a MIME type table, and you
can set the behavior for a particular MIME type, to intercept
them.

Chrome apparently has a "Redirector" thing that used to be in
their web store, but it was removed. And it requires web
monkey techniques to use it (craft a line of code per type).

I don't know what the assumption is, about all users
"secretly wanting to become web monkeys and Javascript developers"
but some of the most powerful techniques are limited to
Computer Science graduates. Sorry. I don't even want to
go there, although after a lot of work, I got the
equivalent of "HelloWorld" in Tampermonkey to work :-/
(I wasn't actually able to do something useful.)
I'll be damned if I'll waste an afternoon taking the
undocumented "Redirector" and doing something with it.
So much bullsheet, so little time.

Paul

R2D2 wrote:

The pdf viewer that comes with w10 stinks.

Got to adobe.com and download and install Acrobat Reader.

Or better yet, go to
https://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudioviewer/
and install their free viewer. It is excellent.


Thank you, sir.
Got the free one at qoppa.com. Perfect for my purposes.

Be advised that Win 10 has (sometiems) the bad habbit of reseting the
preset PDF viewer, so don't be surprised.


Yep. So far, so good.

Paul wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Trying to use chrome with no success.
Using hp notebook and windows 10.

Someone here gave me the steps to take, but I can’t find my way back to
them.
TIA

Since you're anonymous, we can't find you either. There is no
search-able archive for the Windows10 alt group. Thanks, Google!

*******

"PDFs don't open automatically in Chrome"

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/6213030?hl=en

"Open PDFs in Chrome

1. On your computer, open Chrome.
2. At the top right, click More More and then Settings.
3. At the bottom, click Advanced.
4. Under "Privacy and security," click Content settings.
5. Near the bottom, click PDF documents.
6. Turn off Open PDFs using a different application.

I don’t have number six. It shows download pdf files instead of
automatically opening them in chrome. That can be turned on or off.



Chrome will now open PDFs automatically when you click them.
"

In the URL bar, you would type this to get there instantly.
Unfortunately, that interface (in my example install here)
only offers "Open in Chrome" behavior or "Download File" behavior.
The slider doesn't have any option for what happens on right-click

chrome://settings/content/pdfDocuments

Chrome also accepts this as the lead-off to internals of various sorts.
I wasn't able to stumble on the setting by accident, by starting here.
But this is for future reference.

chrome://chrome-urls/

This is hardly what I'd call "putting the user in control".

Most browsers (somewhere) have a MIME type table, and you
can set the behavior for a particular MIME type, to intercept
them.

Chrome apparently has a "Redirector" thing that used to be in
their web store, but it was removed. And it requires web
monkey techniques to use it (craft a line of code per type).

I don't know what the assumption is, about all users
"secretly wanting to become web monkeys and Javascript developers"
but some of the most powerful techniques are limited to
Computer Science graduates. Sorry. I don't even want to
go there, although after a lot of work, I got the
equivalent of "HelloWorld" in Tampermonkey to work :-/
(I wasn't actually able to do something useful.)
I'll be damned if I'll waste an afternoon taking the
undocumented "Redirector" and doing something with it.
So much bullsheet, so little time.

Paul

Ken Blake wrote:

I don't like and recommend against Adobe Reader. I use and
recommend Sumatra Reader

+1

On 02/25/2018 02:02 PM, Andy Burns wrote:
Ken Blake wrote:

I don't like and recommend against Adobe Reader. I use and
recommend Sumatra Reader

+1

I recommended Adobe's only because it is common. It is
also required for Quick Books as well as a few others.
And I did not know his environment.

I personally shutter at Adobe's as it has macro security
issues and perpetuates the usage of those obnoxious
Dynamic XFA forms.

https://kbpdfstudio.qoppa.com/livecy...mic-xfa-forms/

I have used both Sumatra and Foxit before and like both of them.
Qoppa's free read is excellent too. I own the paid version
and use the hell out of it. With the paid version, you can
even measure distances on drawings. My customers in
construction adore that feature.

On 02/25/2018 09:53 AM, Anonymous wrote:
T wrote:
On 02/25/2018 01:39 AM, Anonymous wrote:

Trying to use chrome with no success.
Using hp notebook and windows 10.

Someone here gave me the steps to take, but I can’t find my way back to
them.
TIA


The pdf viewer that comes with w10 stinks.

Got to adobe.com and download and install Acrobat Reader.

Or better yet, go to
https://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudioviewer/
and install their free viewer. It is excellent.


Thank you, sir.
Got the free one at qoppa.com. Perfect for my purposes.


You are most welcome.

The paid version comes with an unlimited trial. It just print
trial or some such across every other page. I own the paid
version and use the hell out of it. With the paid version,
you can even measure distances on drawings. My customers in
construction adore that feature.

PDF Studio will not handle Dynamic XFA forms though. Only
the Adobe one will. Fortunately, Dynamic XFA forms are
now pretty rare.

Mayayana wrote:
"Anonymous" wrote

| https://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudioviewer/
| and install their free viewer. It is excellent.

| Thank you, sir.
| Got the free one at qoppa.com. Perfect for my purposes.
|

I haven't tried that, but it's an 86 MB download!
PDF XChange Viewer allows for editing editable fields,
annotation and pasting. It's only about 8 MB. For
plain viewing, Sumatra is only about 5 MB. It's very
quick and light, and by leaving out scripting functionality
it's also safer than most other viewers. Sumatra is
all I use unless I need to edit a PDF.

PDF Studio Viewer may or may not be good, but
it's clearly very bloated. I'm not going to try it
personally because it's in an InstallShield package
that I can't get open, so I have no idea what's
inside.

A scan of PDFStudioViewer_win64.exe with Virustotal
mentions Java.

Looking at the download page, and the fact it supports
multiple platforms, is a testament to the power of
Java to make stuff available on different platforms
at the same time.

Looking at the files though, I can't see where the
JRE comes from. I would want to check my Programs
and Features after installing that, to see if I will
need to maintain Java packages (for Java bugs) later.

One of the libraries in there, is supposed to be for OCR.
That's an example of where the bloat can come from. Maybe
a library like that, only runs on the paid version ?

Paul

T wrote:
On 02/25/2018 09:53 AM, Anonymous wrote:
T wrote:
On 02/25/2018 01:39 AM, Anonymous wrote:

Trying to use chrome with no success.
Using hp notebook and windows 10.

Someone here gave me the steps to take, but I can’t find my way back to
them.
TIA


The pdf viewer that comes with w10 stinks.

Got to adobe.com and download and install Acrobat Reader.

Or better yet, go to
https://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudioviewer/
and install their free viewer. It is excellent.


Thank you, sir.
Got the free one at qoppa.com. Perfect for my purposes.


You are most welcome.

The paid version comes with an unlimited trial. It just print
trial or some such across every other page. I own the paid
version and use the hell out of it. With the paid version,
you can even measure distances on drawings. My customers in
construction adore that feature.

PDF Studio will not handle Dynamic XFA forms though. Only
the Adobe one will. Fortunately, Dynamic XFA forms are
now pretty rare.


Until recently, I was doing fine with XP, but I ran into a virus that
somehow took off SP3 update. It’s been all downhill from there. At least
this iPad works ok for newsgroups.