A scientific user feedback

[A Borg]

Am 06.12.2004 um 21:06 schrieb Garance A Drosihn:

> 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.

Just a wild guess, but could it be that there are applications which 
change
these settings? As viable candidate, GraphicConverter comes to mind 
because

a) it is pre-installed in many recent Macs
b) it does ask to change the default application for a couple of 
extensions.

So some application might be aware of the QT settings, and might have 
changed
that. I just checked, and most are checked, but not "PDF Image"...

Cheers, Kei.