Please, please help - unable to save PDF files in Conkeror

[Silvio Levy-3]

Hi,

When I follow a link that returns a PDF file, how can I make Conkeror
FORGET ALL ABOUT ACROBAT and just offer to save the file?
(running "conkeror.mozdev.org conkeror 0.9" on ubuntu linux.)

Background: Half the time when I try to view a PDF file in Conkeror
I get a blank screen, because of some bad interaction with Acrobat
Reader.  I've spent many hours trying to debug this, reinstalling
Acrobat etc., and I can't solve it.  So for a month now, there have
been PDF files that I simply cannot view or save under Conkeror, because

 - If I try "s 0" on the blank tab where the PDF file should be
showing, Conkeror crashes.  

 - If I go back to the parent page and, instead of following the link
that returned the PDF file, I try to save it with "s", I get results
ONLY if the PDF file is stored in a URL and the server is willing to
divulge the URL.  In many situations (downloading an article from a
subscription-only journal, or making a barcoded FedEx mailing label),
the server creates the PDF file dynamically when you follow the link.
If you try "s NN" instead of "f NN" (where NN is the link number) you
get "call interactively: Error: invalid load-spec".

So, to avoid all this mess, I'd just like to make Conkeror forget the
acrobat plugin. Googling "conkeror file associations" revealed
nothing.  Using nautilus to change the default utility for opening pdf
files had no effect on conkeror.

Thanks,

Silvio
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[Joe Fineman]

conkeror-request@..., in the person of Silvio Levy
<levy@...>, writes:

> When I follow a link that returns a PDF file, how can I make
> Conkeror FORGET ALL ABOUT ACROBAT and just offer to save the file?
> (running "conkeror.mozdev.org conkeror 0.9" on ubuntu linux.)

I have not observed that particular misbehavior, possibly because I
have not happened to want to save .pdf files accessed in Conkeror.
However, this may be a good place to mention another oddity (a more
minor nuisance) in the interaction of Conkeror with Acrobat.  Namely,
if I have followed a link to a .pdf file and want to get back to the
previous one, "l" does not work unless I first go away to some other
Windows window & then come back to the Conkeror one; then it works.

I run Conkeror 0.9 under Windows XP.
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[Daniel Clemente-2]

El dj, jul 23 2009 a les 20:35, Silvio Levy va escriure:
> So, to avoid all this mess, I'd just like to make Conkeror forget the
> acrobat plugin. Googling "conkeror file associations" revealed
> nothing.  Using nautilus to change the default utility for opening pdf
> files had no effect on conkeror.
>

Try this:
1. M-x extensions RET
2. Go to the „Plugins“ section
3. Look for the bad plugin
4. Click its button „Disable“


  Please report if this works. Although the procedure is easy, I also think this should be better documented. You can write in the conkeror wiki about this using the keywords you searched for before, for instance.


-- Daniel


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[scottjad]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Joe Fineman<joe_f@...> wrote:
> However, this may be a good place to mention another oddity (a more
> minor nuisance) in the interaction of Conkeror with Acrobat.  Namely,
> if I have followed a link to a .pdf file and want to get back to the
> previous one, "l" does not work unless I first go away to some other
> Windows window & then come back to the Conkeror one; then it works.

http://conkeror.org/UpstreamBugs#FocusedpluginspreventConkerorkeybindingsfromworking
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