I download quite a few (legal) PDF documents that I save on my Powerbook for later viewing.. In order to access these easily, I have a little HTML document to index these. Basically it just consists of a whole stack of links, one to each document:
<a href="file1.pdf">Title of File 1</a>
<a href="file2.pdf">Title of File 2</a>
and so on.
Then I use Safari to view the HTML document and I can then access my local "mini-library"...
Now, here's the weird part - clicking on some of the links causes Preview to fire up and display the file (that's what I want to happen), but on some of the others, it causes Finder to fire up and display the LOCATION of the PDF file (and so I then have to click again to get the document displayed).
Each link/file behaves consistently in that it does the same thing each time, but I just cannot figure out what is different about the two situations. I have checked everything that I know how to check - all the files are plain PDF files, all have the same settings (ie same Unix owner, group, read/write). They all have the same type of name - just of the form "name.pdf" and have the same setting for hiding/showing the .pdf extension.
Any clues?
Gordon
<a href="file1.pdf">Title of File 1</a>
<a href="file2.pdf">Title of File 2</a>
and so on.
Then I use Safari to view the HTML document and I can then access my local "mini-library"...
Now, here's the weird part - clicking on some of the links causes Preview to fire up and display the file (that's what I want to happen), but on some of the others, it causes Finder to fire up and display the LOCATION of the PDF file (and so I then have to click again to get the document displayed).
Each link/file behaves consistently in that it does the same thing each time, but I just cannot figure out what is different about the two situations. I have checked everything that I know how to check - all the files are plain PDF files, all have the same settings (ie same Unix owner, group, read/write). They all have the same type of name - just of the form "name.pdf" and have the same setting for hiding/showing the .pdf extension.
Any clues?
Gordon