Now back at the Mac, this time in Safari 3.1.2, I go to Help->Installed Plugins and find that PDF file-types and a load of others from Adobe are handled by the ugin, and naturally this means I get to see the pdf in the Moodle page again. Here's a couple of things to add to John White's nice summary of some of the variations (I'm using Moodle 1.9.3 Build 20080723.): I too have been banging my head on this one. FireFox 3 has also been reported to me from Teachers does not refresh the submitted pages, so that changes can not immediately be seeen. But you see that this would mean a lot of work for all teachers having to change this option on every PDF and other Docs they uploaded.Īnd nobody seems to know how long this workaround will give us a rest in the whole affair. So my actual workaround is to set the "force download" option in Moodle for every resource. There is also an open issue in the Tracker: īut today students complained again and I was not able to open PDFs any more. Once this option set, things seemed to work again. Then I found a Microsoft KB article ( ) explaining the "force download" option for https sites like our Moodle.
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Then I upgraded to 1.9.2+ and everything seemed to work again and some weeks ago things worsened and we had to advise again the trick with right mouse click. We advised to use FireFox 2 or right klick in IE to open the File in a new window or tab. From time to time we had students complaining about PDF (and other docs) not opening in IE 6 and later IE 7. I am experiencing all the mentioned behaviours since I started with our Moodle 1.7 18 months ago. and if you work for Adobe its about time you swallowed the fact that most Macs (and a big selection of PCs) use Firefox and offer us the plugins we need!
if you work around the Firefox/Mac problem by installing a third-party plugin no-one else will have it so your site won't behave the same on the next machine
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if you only get offered the download when you wanted the in-page reader then you haven't got the plugin installed or enabled (or it doesn't exist!!!) So all this suggests that if you have a crashing browser you may have tried mix-and-match with plugins - you have to use the right one for your browser Both are enabled, and the pdf opens in the browser in the Moodle page exactly as expected.
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Then if I try exactly the same thing in IE7 on PC and look at Tools->Internet Options->Programs->Manage Add-ons I have entries for 'Adobe PDF Reader' (ActiveX Control), and 'Adobe PDF Reader Link Helper' (Browser Helper Object). It may also mean that trying to get the old plugin to work on the new browser will crash it!īy contrast if I look at Firefox 3.0.1 on PC (running XP) and go to Tools->Options->Applications then PDF files are set to 'Use Adobe Acrobat (in Firefox)', and sure enough, the PDF opens happily within the browser on my Moodle page! This would probably explain why back-tracking to an older Firefox (and thus with it an older Reader plugin that was supported) did make it work on Mac. To confirm this I go to Firefox->Preferences->Applications and sure enough the only item available to PDF types is 'Preview' i.e Download to the Preview application! If you run Firefox 3.0 on a Mac (OS X 10.4) you will probably find that irrespective of what you ask for in Moodle the pdf is only ever offered as a download, and after I had banged my head against a brick wall for a while I read (but unfortunately now can't find!) a note on Adobe's site to say that the Acrobat Reader Plugin is not supported for Firefox 3! In other words hard luck folks! So if the experience is flaky you should be looking at the browser installation, and consequently making it work on one machine doesn't make it work across your establishment! In all cases you are at the mercy of how the browser on the client machine is set up, as unlike mp3 or flv files (for example) Moodle does not hand out the reader/player for the pdf file-type. within a Moodle page (the latter is definitely my preference so as to keep the work-flow flowing, but I don't always get what I want). Some wish to force a download and there is a setting for that as Mary says some wish the opposite - to open the pdf in the browser i.e. It sounds like there are a mixture of different but equally awful problems with these pdfs!
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