On Wednesday 23 Jul 2014 15:48:08 James wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I have acroread 9.5.5 installed. It is set as the default pdf
> reader for both seamoney and firefox. I mostly use seamonkey, because
> it allows for page/font sizing on the fly, via the mouse wheel (middle
> button on my logitech mouse).  I'd use firefox more, if I could figure
> out dynamic font size adjustments, via the mouse wheel under firebox.
> Maybe an addon does this? Scrolling fonts sizes is quinessentially
> important to old eyes, imho.

Ctrl+scroll works here with Firefox for zooming in or out.


> On seamonkey, when I follow a web link to a pdf, I just get a black page on
> my browser. Under firefox, I get the pdf to open up to be read,
> but can only print postscript files, unless I go to the
> adobe web site; which is not an option for me.

I have set FF to ask whether to open or save.  I can open with qpdfviewer 
which is my default pdf viewer application.  No problems printing pdf 
documents with it.


> I'm looking for a long term solution that easily allows both
> viewing and download of the pdf file; that's how acroread use
> to work.  Googling yeilds a myriad of choices and viewpoints, but
> I've not found any solutions I'm happy with.

Isn't this a matter of setting it up your browser (any browser) to ask you 
what to do with pdf content?  Check under Preferences/Applications/pdf.

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Regards,
Mick