A scientific user feedback

[Mark Smith]

A Borg wrote:

>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 

Yep, I'd guess its related to this or something similar. Maybe users seeing this problem have had a PDF viewer (e.g. Adobe Reader) set as default PDF handler and then disposed of it. Being generally speaking a graphic file format, it could be that the global defaults for PDF handler will reset to Quicktime if a previously set default handler is no longer available ?

Having said that, I've never seen this issue myself.