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I’m sorry Pat – it must be discouraging. I can only report what I find …

Oh help! I’ve been away from this problem for some time – now I come back, EVERYTHING has changed. (And I have forgotten where I was …) What have you done, Pat? The Changelog gives no clue.

Now, the embedded pdf at https://www.alanhowesworld.com/cv/ is NOT working in Firefox (which always worked fine), but I find that it IS working with MSIE. Though what I see in MSIE is rather different from what I used to see in Firefox – I now get all six pages scrolling after each other, and instead of a right-justified toolbar above the window I get an Adobe-reader-style toolbar within the window, only visible on mouseover.

Oh, and my son using MSIE9 with Win7 says he still can’t see it! My faith in this plugin has plumetted …

That’s a useful tool Frank – is there anything for other browsers?

Many thanks! I need to read up on CSS syntax – I was looking for “:link”!

Thanks again! It all works OK now.

Seems it’s to a certain extent a browser issue. Even with the original “.entry” it works fine in MSIE. In Firefox, it didn’t work with “.entry” but worked with “.hentry” once I had cleared the cache – but I had to go into “Options” to do that, F5 did not seem to work.

The only thing I’d like to know now is where to change the default, unvisited link colour if I wish – it does not seem to be in style.css

Thanks for the speedy reply, alchymyth. But I’ve tried both .hentry and .entry-content in place of .entry, and neither of these work either. ??

Sorry, that link to the screenshot does not work. The link code text is obviously case-sensitive. Try this one instead. (Is there an easier way to do this?)

OK, the screenshot is here. (Hope it works!) When I first navigate to the page in question, a “loading” bar appears. Some contacts report seeing the toolbar but no pdf image, some also get the slider but still no image – some get nothing!

I tried altering my IE9 security settings and restarting IE – I enabled “Launch Programs and files in an IFRAME”. It warned me my computer was at risk, but still did not show the pdf image.

Of course I can, and will, put in a direct link to the pdf in a new window, which I am sure will suit 99% of my viewers – not sure why that had not occurred to me before!

An update. I asked a few friends if they could see my embedded pdf OK. I got amazingly variable results. Anyone using Mac/Safari, or Firefox, was OK (excepting my son with a very old FF). MSIE users showed a lot of variation, even with the same combination of IE version and OS. Only one (apart from Pat Hawks) using IE9 with Win7 found it worked OK – @travellers, myself (using IE9/VistaBiz) and two others found problems. Two using IE8 with XP Pro were OK, mixed results with IE7, not working with IE6 (only one).
I’m mystified!

Thanks for your patience and explanations, Pat.

I am puzzled though – while the problem does seem to be browser-related, you seem to be able to see the pdf image OK using IE9 with Win7 while neither @travellers nor my son, with the same setup, can see it. Can you confirm, Pat, that you can see the pdfs on my site (here) and @travellers’ OK? What could account for the variability? Perhaps I should do a mini-survey of my contacts.

So doesn’t everyone have Adobe Reader? My likely users certainly will, so a solution that assumes this would be fine for me – but not perhaps for others.

I’ve added a caveat to my webpage! Still ticking off problems with WordPress – I am very new to it …

And I’m on WordPress 3.2.1 …

My suspicion is that it’s version 9 of MSIE that is causing the problem – though I may well be wrong! Here is what I find –

– My PC on Vista Business:
…Firefox 7.0.1 – works OK
…MSIE 9.0 – “big thumbnail” does not show, but toolbar does and “opens in new window” OK
…Chrome 14 – works OK
– My Laptop on XP Prof 5.1 SP3:
…Firefox 6.0.2 – works OK
…MSIE 8.0 – works OK (my son also finds MSIE 7 works with XP Prof)
– Son’s PC on Windows 7:
…Firefox 3.6 – does not work at all, not even toolbars (but it is a very old edition of FF)
…MSIE 9 – “big thumbnail” does not show, but toolbar does and “opens in new window” OK

Hmm. Wonder if it’s to do with the MSIE (or windows) version? I am using MSIE 9.0 with Vista Business 6.0 SP2.

My son is on MSIE7 with Windows 7 (IIRC), and reports it works fine for him.

I’m getting the same problem – looks like @travellers doesn’t have a fix either. My problem page is here . Fine in Firefox, but not working in MSIE. If I “open in new window” in MSIE, it’s there OK – but on the primary page the “big thumbnail” is not showing and the paging and zoom buttons have no effect. Instead of the pdf image I have five “picture not shown” icons. (My pdf has six pages.)

I tried it on a totally different PC (MSIE only) and could not even see the toolbar buttons.

Many thanks, Pat! I can even work out why – now I know!