Makosuke
May 19, 2004, 04:55 PM
Ok, here's one of the more unplesant things I've run across recently, but I'm hoping someone else here has had experience with a similar system and there's a simple work-around I'm overlooking.
The situation is that my university is implimenting a financial management system from Cognos (http://www.cognos.com/). We're helping test it. It works fine from a properly configured PC.
Unfortunately, this system uses the most boneheaded method of displaying information from a database that I've ever seen: It opens a set of frames, with the lower frame containing not a web page, but a PDF file, of all things. This PDF contains nothing more than a simple table of figures, with links to more detailed information on specific items.
Using the PDF Browser Plugin (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16527) from Schubert, I can get the pages to display properly (with the PDF inline in a frame in the browser). Unfortunately, clicking one of the links within the PDF file generates a server-side error, and I have no idea why--it would seem to be a malformed URL, but it doesn't look that way. (the error occurrs whether you click on a link in the inline PDF or when the same file is opened in Adobe Reader, or Preview for that matter.)
The unfathomable stupidity of generating inline PDFs to display a simple table of data (which makes the system painfully slow on any computer, I might add) aside, has anybody had any experience with a similar system, and maybe a way to get it to work?
Help, please?
The situation is that my university is implimenting a financial management system from Cognos (http://www.cognos.com/). We're helping test it. It works fine from a properly configured PC.
Unfortunately, this system uses the most boneheaded method of displaying information from a database that I've ever seen: It opens a set of frames, with the lower frame containing not a web page, but a PDF file, of all things. This PDF contains nothing more than a simple table of figures, with links to more detailed information on specific items.
Using the PDF Browser Plugin (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16527) from Schubert, I can get the pages to display properly (with the PDF inline in a frame in the browser). Unfortunately, clicking one of the links within the PDF file generates a server-side error, and I have no idea why--it would seem to be a malformed URL, but it doesn't look that way. (the error occurrs whether you click on a link in the inline PDF or when the same file is opened in Adobe Reader, or Preview for that matter.)
The unfathomable stupidity of generating inline PDFs to display a simple table of data (which makes the system painfully slow on any computer, I might add) aside, has anybody had any experience with a similar system, and maybe a way to get it to work?
Help, please?
