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

From	Alan Calder <alan_calder@o2.co.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.misc
Subject	Re: Is there a way of getting PDFs to open without saving?
Date	2012-03-31 23:06 +0100
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Message-ID	<527947572falan_calder@o2.co.uk> (permalink)
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In article <5279451937tim@invalid.org.uk>,
   Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> wrote:
> 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.

In an earlier post on this thread I noted that something like this does
happen with Oregano.  If a pdf is double-clicked on in the browser than a
pdf reader is tarted up, in my case RiScript.  I have to repeat the double
click for the file to actually loaded into the reader but that's only for
the first time.

With Netsurf this doesn't happen, you still have to drag the download icon
to the pdf reader.

What's needed is for Netsurf to behave like Oregano.

Alan

-- 
Alan Calder, Milton Keynes, UK.

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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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