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Adobe viewer needed?

3 messages · Timothy Bates, Simon Urbanek

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Timothy Bates
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Hi,
In R.app 3.2.0, doing

?function -> index -> vignettes -> pdf

R.app requests a version of Adobe Reader. I don?t have this installed, but all OS X users have preview.app

Could the help service be coded to either:
1. just open pdfs (that way they?ll be in a stand alone app configured by the user.
2. set preview.app as the default in-app viewer?


my version is 
               _                           
platform       x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0   
arch           x86_64                      
os             darwin13.4.0                
system         x86_64, darwin13.4.0        
status                                     
major          3                           
minor          2.0                         
year           2015                        
month          04                          
day            16                          
svn rev        68180                       
language       R                           
version.string R version 3.2.0 (2015-04-16)
nickname       Full of Ingredients
Simon Urbanek
# 
Tim,

I fear that it must be a setting on your Mac - the default is to show the PDF in-ine in the same window (which uses the Preview engine behind the scenes). I suspect that you must have installed the Adobe plugin at some point (or some Adobe software) - OS X doesn't know anything about Adobe until you install some of their products at which point it's actually really hard to reverse the changes their installers make.

Cheers,
Simon
Timothy Bates
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bingo. Didn?t think of the plugin, as Safari and Chrome both open pdfs inline using Preview.app

The Adobe detritus was here if anyone else has this problem.

 /Library/Internet Plug-ins/AdobePDFViewer.plugin

thanks!
t