[R-SIG-Mac] Adobe viewer needed?

[Tim Bates]

bingo. Didn’t think of the plugin, as Safari and Chrome both open pdfs inline using Preview.app

The Adobe detritus was here if anyone else has this problem.

 /Library/Internet Plug-ins/AdobePDFViewer.plugin

thanks!
t

> On 13 Aug 2015, at 7:47 PM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
> 
> Tim,
> 
> I fear that it must be a setting on your Mac - the default is to show the PDF in-ine in the same window (which uses the Preview engine behind the scenes). I suspect that you must have installed the Adobe plugin at some point (or some Adobe software) - OS X doesn't know anything about Adobe until you install some of their products at which point it's actually really hard to reverse the changes their installers make.
> 
> Cheers,
> Simon
> 
> 
>> On Aug 13, 2015, at 7:25 AM, Tim Bates <timothy.c.bates at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> In R.app 3.2.0, doing
>> 
>> ?function -> index -> vignettes -> pdf
>> 
>> R.app requests a version of Adobe Reader. I don’t have this installed, but all OS X users have preview.app
>> 
>> Could the help service be coded to either:
>> 1. just open pdfs (that way they’ll be in a stand alone app configured by the user.
>> 2. set preview.app as the default in-app viewer?
>> 
>> 
>> my version is 
>>              _                           
>> platform       x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0   
>> arch           x86_64                      
>> os             darwin13.4.0                
>> system         x86_64, darwin13.4.0        
>> status                                     
>> major          3                           
>> minor          2.0                         
>> year           2015                        
>> month          04                          
>> day            16                          
>> svn rev        68180                       
>> language       R                           
>> version.string R version 3.2.0 (2015-04-16)
>> nickname       Full of Ingredients         
>>> 
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