Re: Is there a way of getting PDFs to open without saving?

From	Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.misc
Subject	Re: Is there a way of getting PDFs to open without saving?
Date	2012-03-31 22:41 +0100
Organization	timil.com
Message-ID	<5279451937tim@invalid.org.uk> (permalink)
References	<8c1d257852.michaelbell@michael.beaverbell.co.uk> <mpro.m1o4fd001gaxz00bc@wingsandbeaks.org.uk.invalid>

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In article <mpro.m1o4fd001gaxz00bc@wingsandbeaks.org.uk.invalid>, Jeremy
Nicoll - news posts <jn.nntp.scrap007@wingsandbeaks.org.uk> wrote:
> Michael Bell <michael@beaverbell.co.uk> wrote:

> > Browsing the web with netsurf I often come across interesting-looking
> > sites - and get a PDF which I can only open and read by saving it in
> > a temp file. Is there a way of opening reading such PDFs without
> > saving them...

> There's no way for an app that displays the contents of a PDF file to
> display anything unless the file is downloaded first.  

[snip]

Just as a browser can't display a page until it is downloaded.  :-/

I think what is wanted is a mechanism whereby a pdf link in 'a' browser
is clicked and the file is displayed, with no user intervention in
between. Or the picture displayed, the music played or the video
rendered. I can dream. 

I like to think it worked the RISC OS way, that is: different filetypes
are dealt with by different applications. It shouldn't be beyond the
realms of possibility for a browser to (optionally) download a file to
scrap and then FilerRun certain filetypes. That is all that is needed to
render a PDF file etc if !PDF etc is set up properly.

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Is there a way of getting PDFs to open without saving? Michael Bell <michael@beaverbell.co.uk> - 2012-03-29 18:16 +0100
  Re: Is there a way of getting PDFs to open without saving? Alan Calder <alan_calder@o2.co.uk> - 2012-03-29 19:22 +0100
    Re: Is there a way of getting PDFs to open without saving? Alan Griffin <ajg@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-03-29 23:08 +0100
  Re: Is there a way of getting PDFs to open without saving? Jeremy Nicoll - news posts <jn.nntp.scrap007@wingsandbeaks.org.uk> - 2012-03-29 23:42 +0100
    Re: Is there a way of getting PDFs to open without saving? Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2012-03-31 22:41 +0100
      Re: Is there a way of getting PDFs to open without saving? Alan Calder <alan_calder@o2.co.uk> - 2012-03-31 23:06 +0100
        Re: Is there a way of getting PDFs to open without saving? Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2012-04-01 10:33 +0100
          Re: Is there a way of getting PDFs to open without saving? Alan Calder <alan_calder@o2.co.uk> - 2012-04-01 11:19 +0100
            Re: Is there a way of getting PDFs to open without saving? Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2012-04-01 11:48 +0100
              Re: Is there a way of getting PDFs to open without saving? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-01 22:41 +0200
              Re: Is there a way of getting PDFs to open without saving? Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-04 06:51 +0100
            Re: Is there a way of getting PDFs to open without saving? Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> - 2012-04-01 11:39 +0100
              Re: Is there a way of getting PDFs to open without saving? Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2012-04-01 13:46 +0100
          Re: Is there a way of getting PDFs to open without saving? Chris Hughes <news@noonehere.co.uk> - 2012-04-01 11:48 +0100
            Re: Is there a way of getting PDFs to open without saving? Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2012-04-01 13:49 +0100
              Re: Is there a way of getting PDFs to open without saving? Jess <phantasm_39@hotmail.com> - 2012-04-01 15:36 +0100
                Re: Is there a way of getting PDFs to open without saving? Chris Bell <news@highpath.net> - 2012-04-01 18:05 +0100
              Re: Is there a way of getting PDFs to open without saving? Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-04-01 20:56 +0100
              Re: Is there a way of getting PDFs to open without saving? Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-04-01 20:57 +0100
                Re: Is there a way of getting PDFs to open without saving? Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2012-04-01 22:43 +0100
          Re: Is there a way of getting PDFs to open without saving? Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2012-04-07 14:05 +0100

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