Two Questions about the Web Server Interface

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I moved our previous scans successfully into DTPO yesterday. Now I want to give my wife access to the documents (for viewing) from her account. I am trying to use the web server… but I have two questions.

  1. Is there some way to bookmark the web interface for her? I have not found a reliable way because the URL seems to change when I re-start the server. I can find it reliably via bonjour navigation in Safari… but I do not know how to bookmark bonjour. I want this to be dead simple for her. She is not pleased that I moved our documents out of her machine and moved it to mine.

  2. When I access the web server via safari… I can see the file structure and organization of my database… but opening any file just shows a full black page. Any idea what I am doing wrong.

I am brand new to DTPO.

/Jim

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One more thing:

From Safari, I can download the documents OK… but I just cant see them in the browser. They show up as all black.

/Jim

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You need to enter a fixed port number into the Server preference pane. This fixes the changing URL.

What kind of documents appear black?

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All of my documents are currently PDF’s except for one .eml from the mail application. I just added a .jpg as a test.

All PDFs appear totally black
The .jpg displays properly
the .eml displays “The document type cannot be displayed”.

I also tried it on both of our MacBook Airs, and they display the .pdf files just fine. It is our iMac that does not display them.

I looked at various plug-ins… and noticed that the iMac has “Adobe Acrobat and Reader Plug-in” where as the two MBAs do not. Is that plug-in necessary? It was either installed back when I got my Scansnap M1500 a year ago, or when I installed DTPO. I have no idea how to uninstall it or if it is needed for DTPO. I also don’t know if it is the culprit.

Thanks for the help fixing the urls. I’ll go do that now.

/Jim

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Sorry… i missed the bolded kind in your question. All of my documents are “PDF+Text”. I ran them all through the convert function yesterday.

/Jim

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When you drag such a PDF into an empty tab in Safari, without any DEVONthinking involved, do they show up correctly or also black?

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Eric,

When I drag one of the documents into Safari, it shows up normal. If I drag it to my desktop and double click, it opens in Acrobat, and also appears normal.

/Jim