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[Josh]

Antony, you might be able to solve your Firefox problem in this manner. (Note that it might be a bit akward, since it's just my Windows directions with Mac phrasing)

Go to your Applications directory, look in the Adobe Reader directory (or wherever you placed Adobe Reader), then Reader under that (if applicable), then Browser. There should be some library files (or whatever Macs use for plugins), copy it to the Firefox plugins directory and try now.

There's only one problem with your suggestion. Mac firefox has a dedicated internet plug-in folder that is shared by the browsers. It's at

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Macintosh HD:Library:Internet Plug-Ins

or somesuch.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[Antony]

Just had some speed and performance comparison in following software, Acrobat Reader 5, Adobe Reader 6, Adobe Reader 7, and Preview.

Speedwise, for smaller PDFs, Preview is fastest, then followed by Adobe Reader 7, Acrobat Reader 5, and finally Adobe Reader 6.
For large or complicated PDFs, Adobe Reader 7 is fastest, then followed by Preview, Acrobat Reader 5, and finally Adobe Reader 6.

As for performance, it depends if the PDF file is complicated or if that's encoded in later PDF version. For complicated PDF, Preview displays reasonable well, but not for the print out. Some specified font (typeface) did not print out correctly by Preview.
However, in general, printing from Adobe Reader is a little bit slower than printing from Apple's Preview.

Testing environment: Mac OS X 10.3.7, PowerMac G4 dual 1.42GHz with 2GB RAM. Printer is HP LaserJet 5000N.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/125.5.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.12

[soilentgreen]

Anyone else had this problem - I can't print from Adobe Reader 7 on my Mac. Reader 6 prints no problem. Ideas?

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.23; Mac_PowerPC)