A scientific user feedback

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 11:34 AM -0800 12/6/04, James Moore wrote:
>On Dec 5, 2004, at 8:51 PM, Curtis Clifton wrote:
>
>>2. OO3 treats an ES-generated PDF file (which has type ESPD) as a
>>movie attachment.  Such an attachment in TextEdit or OmniGraffle
>>is treated correctly (i.e., not as a movie).  This seems to be a
>>bug in OO3.
>>
>
>I'll file a bug on this. To some extent we're at the mercy of
>Quicktime. We essentially have to create lists of exceptions
>whenever we something different to happen. Did you know that QT
>registers to read text files? Lovely.

Actually, this rings a bell with me.  We have some people on campus
who have trouble with PDF files in their web-browser, because QT is
called to display the PDF file.  I don't understand why only *some*
people have the problem.  For those two people, I just went into the
System Preferences for Quicktime, and changed the "MIME settings"
(on the Plug-in panel) so that Quicktime didn't open PDF files.  That
option is listed under "Images - Still Images files".

I have no idea why this happens to a few people, and not to everyone
else.  In my case, it has nothing to do with OO3.  If people using OO3
are seeing the same kind of behavior, they might want to check what
that setting is in their System Preferences.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu