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Unable to download PDF documents with FF 38.8

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David Graser:

--- Quote from: ivan on January 09, 2019, 10:10:00 pm ---
Hi David,

I don't have a default program set for PDF files, sometimes I use Lucide and sometimes I use GSView depending on content. Lucide is good for reading text and GSView is excellent for drawings and engineering diagrams.

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Can you show pics on the difference on how Lucide renders an engineering drawing and GSView renders one?  I am curious.  Gregg has done an excellent job on improving Lucide.  I have beta 10 which worked great.  However, it has improved more since then.

Dave Yeo:
Hi Ivan, perhaps one of these will help, https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recovering-important-data-from-an-old-profile, http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox

roberto:
Are you reload? in the firefox.

ivan:
Hi David,

There are three main things in GSView that beat Lucide.
1) much better zoom increments.
2) the ability to set a scale for a drawing and take measurements from it.
3) the ability to set a DPI value for the display.

As an example, towards the end of last year I needed to work with some A0 size drawings that were emailed to me. Lucide wouldn't open them (something to do with problems creating thumbnails I think). GSView had no problems and I could zoom in and take the necessary measurements whicj saved me having to setup a windows box to run AutoCad.

Sorry no pictures, those were sensitive commercial drawings.

BTW, I am not trying to put down Lucide, in fact it is my PDF reader of choice for equipment manuals and SF stories I have in PDF format.


Hi Dave,

I have the first of your urls bookmarked from when I setup the Linux box.  Reading the second one, it appears that all I have to do is copy the epub dir to the new profile and put the correct extension in the extensions dir.


Hi roberto,

I assume you mean did I restart Firefox.  Yes I did since you can't make the changes with FF running and to because I changed the SET MOZ_NO_RWS setting I also rebooted the computer.

Dave Yeo:
Hi Ivan, someone pointed out your problem may be in content-prefs.sqlite. Brutal fix is moving it out of the way. Subtle fix is using a sqlite3 editor such as the sqlite manager extension and deleting the prefs table containing a bad path, probably from a crash while downloading to %TMP% and a leftover .part file.

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