ActiveX control not working with Mozilla firefox and opera

[sukhman]

Hi,

ActiveX control is working only with IE(Internet Explorer), but it doesn't get loaded on Mozilla Firefox and Opera. Please suggest what could be the reason.

Thanks in Advance.

Regards,
Sukhman

[Corwin - Tracker Sup]

Do you have any other PDF viewers installed on your machine?
Also in your "..\Mozilla Firefox\plugins\" directory, do you have "npPDFXCviewNPPlugin.dll" file?

[sukhman]

Hi,

Yes I do have the mentioned plug-in dll, but still I am unable to load the control on Mozilla Firefox. And I have Adobe reader 9.0 installed on my system as well. But I have made PDFXChangeViewer as the default application for opening .pdf files in browser. i.e I have set the option "default in browser" for PDFXChangeViewer.

Does this control support the browsers other than IE.

Regards,
Sukhman

[sukhman]

The plug-in provided npPDFXCviewNPPlugin.dll is not functioning.

[BigMike]

It works fine here (plugin file version is 2.0.42.1) and I'm using Opera 9.64 on WinXP, SP3 32bit. Sorry I'm not familiar with the firefox preferences - so I can't give hints what preferences could be checked to ensure all is set up right...

[sukhman]

I am using Windows 2003 server, IE7 and Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1. The plugin doesn't seem to work for Firefox. Any suggestions? I will test with Safari too.

[Corwin - Tracker Sup]

Currently PDF-XChange Viewer supports IE, Maxthon, Firefox, Opera and Chrome.
In Firefox go to Tools->Options->Applications. Do you see there PDF-XChange Viewer Document? Try to change "Action" for this document to different values and see if this helps.

[sukhman]

I tried to set the action proprty in (Tools -> Options -> Applications -> Action) in Mozilla Firefox to "PDFXChangeViewer", but to no avail.
Also I tried to view it on Safari...its not working there too. As you told it should work withIE, Maxthon, Firefox, Opera and Chrome. But its not working with Opera and Safari at my end
i.E the ActiveX control is not shown up on the web page opened in the above mentioned browsers.

[Corwin - Tracker Sup]

Hi, Sukhman.
Just to make it clear – you are talking about Viewer ActiveX which open PDF in browser using MIME types or you are talking about your own Viewer ActiveX component on your web page, which was added by html (or JS) code?

[sukhman]

Hi Corwin,



I am talking abount the PDF-XchangeViewer ActiveX control embedded on my web page.

Regards,
Sukhman

[Corwin - Tracker Sup]

Oh, now I see. I was thinking that you are talking about view PDF in browser by PDF-XChange Viewer for End Users.
Unfortunately, for now ActiveX technology on Web pages is supported only by Microsoft Internet Explorer. So you cannot display any ActiveX component on web page by using other browsers like Firefox or Opera.

[sukhman]

Hi Corwin,


But we have the requirement to open a web page in other browsers too

Anyways, thanks for the response.

Regards,
Sukhman

[sukhman]

Hi Corwin,

One more query, can this activex control be somehow treated as server-side control, coz I want to save the document annotated on activex control on my web page on my Content Management system(.i.e SharePoint). I guess its not possble..right? As I know using SDK we can save the copy of file on filesystem. but my requirement is to save the same file on SharePoint. Please suggest if we can achieve this somehow.

[Corwin - Tracker Sup]

No, that is impossible. ActiveX is only client-side technology.