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If you are trying to get Firefox or any browser to open a PDF file, then you need to install Adobe's Free PDF Reader. Browsers have to know what programs are associated with certain formats so they "know" how to open it for you.

If you have a PDF link on your web page, you need to provide the PDF Reader link for those who may need it installed.

Without the PDF Reader plug-in, you'll aways get the popup alert telling you the browser can not open the file.

Adobe Reader: http://get.adobe.com/reader/

Ron

PDF files are a lot of trouble, when I worked at a computer lab it was the one problem that we sometimes could never fix.

Having said that though, we were able to sometimes open it in a plain text editor such as Window's "Notepad" and search for all the important text. If you can do that you can then open the text file in Dreamweaver. Also if you have any contact with the one who created the file they may be able to send it as a text file since most people write those things in a text or word processor before saving it as a PDF.

You may also want to let the person or group who sent you the file know, that PDFs are no longer a good idea.

Good luck!

A pdf file is a pdf file, not a Firefox document. A Dreamweaver file is a text file. If you want to put a pdf file on your website, just link to the pdf file. Pdf files aren't displayed on the site, they're rendered in the browser. (You can write code to output anything AS a pdf file, but you're still just sending the file to the user's pdf reader.)

<a href="myfile.pdf">My PDF File</a>