Bill Press
05-27-2007, 10:54 PM
First of all, apologies to you Mac users who have had difficulties getting the FileOpen plug-in to work, or work conveniently. We are now hopeful that the problems are solved.
New install instructions are here (http://www.nr.com/plugin/plugin_install.html#mac). Be sure to download the new file FileOpenMacInstall.dmg using the indicated link. If you follow the instructions, you should get a working installation for Adobe Acrobat/Reader 7.0.8 (or any later version 7) or for Adobe Acrobat/Reader 8. If you have an earlier version 7 release than 7.0.8, it might also work, or you can let the Reader program upgrade itself to 7.0.8 or later.
A big advantage of upgrading to Adobe Reader 8, which is free (http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html), is that it integrates seamlessly with the Safari browser, so that Numerical Recipes book pages will display in the browser window, the way you expect them to. (Alas, Firefox users will still have to save the PDF files and open them with Adobe Reader. This is because Firefox doesn't support the Adobe plugin, while FileOpen requires it.)
If you encounter problems, please post them to this thread.
New install instructions are here (http://www.nr.com/plugin/plugin_install.html#mac). Be sure to download the new file FileOpenMacInstall.dmg using the indicated link. If you follow the instructions, you should get a working installation for Adobe Acrobat/Reader 7.0.8 (or any later version 7) or for Adobe Acrobat/Reader 8. If you have an earlier version 7 release than 7.0.8, it might also work, or you can let the Reader program upgrade itself to 7.0.8 or later.
A big advantage of upgrading to Adobe Reader 8, which is free (http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html), is that it integrates seamlessly with the Safari browser, so that Numerical Recipes book pages will display in the browser window, the way you expect them to. (Alas, Firefox users will still have to save the PDF files and open them with Adobe Reader. This is because Firefox doesn't support the Adobe plugin, while FileOpen requires it.)
If you encounter problems, please post them to this thread.