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From
11/01/2007 18:28:32
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
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Forum:
Windows
Category:
Computing in general
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01184785
Message ID:
01184845
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19
>Hi, Hilmar.
>
>>I managed to link, without any problems, to PDF documents, word documents, and others. When trying to link to a .PDX file (Adobe index), the browser only shows me a text representation of the file. Double-clicking on the same file in Windows Explorer opens it correctly.
>>
>>Any ideas? Preferably, I do not want to change browser settings, since this is for a CD / DVD, for widespread distribution.
>>
>>If possible, I would prefer a solution that works in several operating systems, but a Windows-only solution would also be acceptable, since that is the likely target audience.
>
>The problem is with the file asociation for this extension. If it works on the same machine by double-clicking in explorer, then the browser is somhow filtering it instead of delegating to the shell, so the only solution can be changing the browser configuration...
>
>Maybe you can change the PDX for an HTML page?
>
>Regards,

Do you think the problem might appear only on my machine, because of some problem in the browser configuration? In this case - if it works on other machines - it would not be a major problem. (Obviously, I will have to try this.)
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