The message refers to a browser plugin. PDFs don’t display in browsers like images. It requires a plugin.
hi
I realise it’s a browser message but it was working before.
I think I must have had something installed in WordPress that allowed the pdf’s to display but I don’t know what.
I can’t find ay plugin that allows you to use the <embed src=”xxx”/> syntax
Thanks
Mark
You don’t need a plugin to put <embed src="xxx"/> in a post. You can type it in, or you can use this trick (not tested but it makes sense). You do need a browser plugin to view it. If it used to work and you now have a browser plugin message, what has changed something on your computer, maybe you deleted Acrobat Reader or something. There is nothing that WordPress can do to force a PDF to show up if the appropriate reader is not available. Browsers do not handle PDFs natively like they do images. Said reader is available on my computer and I can see your PDF.
If you don’t mind being dependent upon a third party, you can use Google Docs to do it.
Hiya
thanks for your reply.
I’m still confused as I can no longer see it in FireFox or Chrome but I can in Safari.
This same is true on another computer.
Can you see it in Firefox?
It’s really odd as it was definitely working before but I take your point about it being a browser plugin that is used to display the pdf.
Thanks
Mark
Can you see it in Firefox?
Yes– Windows 7.
Don’t trust what Safari does. It is a minor browser, it does oddball stuff (like display TIFFs), and it isn’t representative of anything.
There are really two ’embedding’ tags that you need to worry about– <embed> and ‘<object>` ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2254027/which-browsers-support-the-embed-and-object-tags ). You may be seeing an issue with that.
