277595 - pdf plugin (acrobat 5) displays the pdf filling about 50% of the browser width

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[tommi uimonen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041219 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0+dfsg.1-1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041219 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0+dfsg.1-1)

The opened pdf file is shown fully, but the width of the pdf is not fit to the
browser window width, it's only about 50% of the browser window width.

But if I press Restore (since the window was full screen) and then Maximize
again, then the pdf is shown correctly fitted to the browser width.

Unfortunately(*) I didn't test what happens if browser window is not maximized
before loading pdf and if the problem existed in that case, would resizing by
dragging the window corner/side solve the problem.

(*) I already installed Acrobat 7 beta which doesn't have the problem. This
might be adobe 5 problem, but I suspect it's the plugin problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start firefox and maximize the window (the [] button next to the [X] button)
2.Make sure that pdf plugin is enabled and acrobat 5 installed
3.Open some pdf file from internet

Actual Results:  
width of the pdf is not fit to the browser window

Expected Results:  
The pdf should scale to browser width

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Use Acrobat 7 (new release for Linux)

Comment 2

[Rob Jaworski]

Hey Peter, do you have a pointer to Acrobat 7 for linux?

The Adobe site says that the Adobe Reader 7.0 for Linux pre-release program has
been closed.

Comment 3

[tommi uimonen]

Actually I have seen this behaviour with AbiWord too(*), so this is not limited
to Acroread, although AcroRead 7 solved the problem for pdf's. 

* as speaking, using FireFox 1.0 and AbiWord 2.2.3

Just save document with AbiWord in Microsoft Doc format, and put it to web and
open it with FireFox.

Comment 4

[Rob Jaworski]

Hey Tommi, this really is starting to sound like an issue with interoperability
of plugins with Firefox, or the default settings of plugins within the browser
window.  (Although I may not be understanding the problem fully; perhaps you
could attach a couple of screenshots to this bug report.) 

Comment 5

[tommi uimonen]

http://www.hut.fi/u/tuimonen/firefox-plugin-problem.png

And if the window is not maximized when loading the abiword-plugin, there is no
way to get it showing correctly (even I do the Restore-Maximize procedure
multiple times)

Have you tested this behaviour with abiword (or acrobat 5); just set up local
webserver and try some .doc files (abiword can save .doc, so no need to use MS Word)

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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