Firefox and PDF

[ff103]

Does anyone have an idea what might be going on here? I have 6 or 7 PDF files uploaded to this site and only 2 of them look like this with firefox. In konqueror they look fine. I don't know what to try to fix.  If you would like to try your firefox, the site is, http://www.kyapplefest.org/contact.html , there is a list of forms that are in pdf and the "Merchant Mart Application" and the "Vendor Price List" are the only 2 that are like this. They look fine on my local machine. Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.Also I have never seen this gray looking back ground before, maybe a update glitch a couple of days ago, I don't know. Thanks.
 

[xr200]

Just some data for you that might help...

If I have Firefox set to use FoxitReader or acroread (Edit->Preferences->Applications->Portable Document Format),
the pages display fine.   On the other hand, just like you said, if I have that preference set to "Preview in Firefox",
then I also get the gibberish you reported.

I'm not willing to guess what it means, but it's definitely not just happening to you.

xr200

[smileeb]

       
You may contact an Event chairman "HERE"

If you mean all the files below my posting of yours in red, they all read with no
trouble for me.

[ff103]

thanks everyone, I changed some of the settings in firefox as suggested , but I still get gibberish on two of the files. I just can't figure out why only two are causing me problems.

[gseaman]

Which two are gibberish? I opened all of them in Firefox without problems. (A couple of them were very blurry, though.)

Galen

[ff103]

Which two are gibberish? I opened all of them in Firefox without problems. (A couple of them were very blurry, though.)

Galen

the "Merchant Mart Application" and the "Vendor Price List" are the only 2 that are like this. I don't what it is Galen, but I tried firefox on my laptop that is running a re-master of this desktop system and the laptop is fine, but those two files on this desktop (when viewed in firefox) are gibberish. I'm at a lose. Also Opera see them fine.

[gseaman]

I would guess that you don't have a needed font on your system. Do you have webcore-fonts installed?

Galen

[DeBaas]

No problems in FF, Opera and Chrome.
Did you try to switch off the Adobe reader plugin ? (testing)
It's build in in the new browser versions.

[ff103]

Disabled Adobe Reader, still the same., truly a mystery.

[Serj]

 
I did this:
 
about:config
pdfjs.disabled = true
 
Pdfjs, goodbye!
 

[Yankee]

thanks everyone, I changed some of the settings in firefox as suggested , but I still get gibberish on two of the files. I just can't figure out why only two are causing me problems.

I think the problem is with Firefox.    Although the PDF reader works inside
Firefox it still needs work.   In other words, tho it works, it's not perfect.
Chromium browser has a better one, and when I used it the links in the
PDF file were actually active and worked when clicked.

regards,

Y

[zorlac]

I changed Firefox 19's PDF viewer back to Evince since FF's native viewer is rather crappy IMO. 

[gseaman]

I agree that it is not great. But, it is new and works pretty well. I am surprised, the early nightly versions were very slow, and difficult to use. I expect that in a few revisions, it will rival okular, at least for online viewing.

Galen

[sling-shot]

Did someone refer to Not Invented Here Syndrome? Or to re-inventing the wheel?
Was there really such a necessity to have a .pdf reader in the browser itself? What will come next - The Firefox Image Manipulation Programme with Single Window Mode?
Looks like Mozilla wants to be the be all - end all of computing - they have the browser, they have this .pdf viewer, they have an OS, and they have unknown future plans.

[Yankee]

Did someone refer to Not Invented Here Syndrome? Or to re-inventing the wheel?
Was there really such a necessity to have a .pdf reader in the browser itself? What will come next - The Firefox Image Manipulation Programme with Single Window Mode?
Looks like Mozilla wants to be the be all - end all of computing - they have the browser, they have this .pdf viewer, they have an OS, and they have unknown future plans.

If they could quit fooling around with HTML5 and fully implement it before
someone invents HTML6 that would be nice.

A PDF reader in a browser which reads website links has been done.

All we can say is thanks when they do so.

The end of that cycle is near it seems.

regards,

Y