Myriad Browser Plug-in
README

This document contains all product and other important information.  For installation instructions, please refer to the Administrator’s Guide in your installed Myriad directory.  The following topics are included in this file:

FEATURE DIFFERENCES OF THE Browser PLUG-IN AND MYRIAD
FEATURE LIMITATIONS
OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION
TROUBLESHOOTING
CONTACTING INFORMATIVE GRAPHICS

The Myriad browser interface is a full-feature version of Myriad that runs inside the browser window.  You can point the browser to an HTML page or use MIME types to call the plug-in.  For example, when a user clicks on a hyperlinked DWG file in an HTML page, the file would be launched in the browser version of Myriad.  The plug-in requires access to a normal installation of Myriad.

Feature Differences of the Browser Plug-in and Myriad
Due to the nature of the browser interface, there are a few subtle differences between Myriad and the Browser Plug-in. 

•	There is no System Administrator mode.  
•	The Document Stack Manager has been removed.
•	There is no Send Mail feature.
•	There is no Most Recently Used File list.
•	Side by Side Comparison is not supported in this release.
•	You cannot exit the Myriad window within the browser.  To close the Myriad window, you must close that HTML page.  
•	ISO banner and other user information is not stored in the MYRuser.INI or MYRIAD32.INI files.  This information is stored in the MYRuser.PLG file.  

Feature Limitations
•	Redline filenames for Myriad and the Browser Plug-in cannot contain special characters that are not supported in URL strings.   Those characters are:  quotes ( " ), apostrophe ( ' ), accent ( ` ), brackets (< > { } [ ] ), plus (+), pound (#), percent (%), pipe ( | ), caret (^), and tilde (~).
•	Netscape 6.0 users should upgrade to Netscape 6.01 or higher.  Netscape 6.0 does not correctly dismiss the plug-in and can cause Browser instability. 

Other Important Information
•	You must set your browser to check for new versions of stored pages.  Do not use the cached version of documents.
•	Do not resize the Netscape Browser window while running the plug-in.  Resizing the Netscape window while redlining a PDF document will cause any unsaved redlines to be lost.  
•	When running the Netscape Browser, the plug-in will only launch for files opened via their MIME type (clicking on a link in an HTML page), not when browsing local or ftp files (e.g., opening a local file through the File/Open command or typing a direct ftp path to a file).
•	In Windows 95, when viewing zipped files created with a 32-bit zip application that does not store files in a DOS eight-dot-three format (i.e., WinZip's default configuration), you must match the case of the file name as it was originally zipped. 

Troubleshooting
•	The browser plug-in requires access to an installation of Myriad.  The plug-in will search the Windows Registry first for a local installation of Myriad.  If it does not find one, it will launch the first instance of Myriad that it finds in your path.  If you are running a network version of Myriad, make sure the path to the Myriad directory is in your System Path.  
•	If you choose to open a file and it comes up as text in IE or if you get a Save As dialog box in Netscape, you may need to edit the MIME and Extension settings on your web server.  This is because it is the web server that is sending the MIME type (the MIME type is what tells your browser what kind of file you are trying to load) to your browser.  If the web server does not know what kind of file you are requesting, you will get this behavior.  The location of these settings varies depending on your web server and the OS on which it resides.  
For a NCSA and Apache web servers, there is a text file called mime.types (for example, in Apache this file is located in the Conf subdirectory within the installed Apache directory).  This contains a list of file formats and their MIME types.  You may need to add some formats to this list.  To find the correct MIME type for a format, you can check the following web address:
ftp://ftp.iana.org/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/image
Select the link for the desired format and find the Type name and Subtype name.  The MIME type format is:  <Type Name>/<Subtype Name>.   For example, CGM is image/cgm.  If the format you require is not listed at the above website, use the following format:
application/x-<file extension>
If your web server does not use a mime/types or similar file, they may use registry keys.  For more specific information please check your web server documentation.  

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