A scientific user feedback

[Curtis Clifton]

On Dec 6, 2004, at 2:06 PM, Garance A Drosihn wrote:

> 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. ...
>
> 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....

Interesting.  On my machine QT was not set to open PDF files.  So it 
appears that this problem is somewhat independent.

Curt

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Curtis Clifton, PhD Candidate
Dept. of Computer Science, Iowa State University
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~cclifton