Re: Snell-Descartes-Harriot Law in complex form ?

From: Sam Goldwasser (sam_at_saul.cis.upenn.edu)
Date: 03/15/05 

Date: 15 Mar 2005 12:23:53 -0500

AES <siegman@stanford.edu> writes:

> In article <4236e309$0$11094$3b214f66@tunews.univie.ac.at>,
> "Bernhard H" <bholzingATmail.zserv.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>
> > > >
> > > > http://www.stanford.edu/~siegman/optics_with_gain.pdf
> > > >
>
> > > When I tried to download this file using Safari--yes I do
> > use Macintosh--all
> > > I got was what appeared to be the first page of a slide
> > presentation.
> > >
> > > Bill
> >
> > I encountered the same problem (using Firefox). Just went to
> > http://www.stanford.edu/~siegman/ and used "save link as"
> > on "Optics with gain", then it worked properly.
> > Regards,
> > Bernhard
>
> Friends, I'm not an HTML expert, and not into trying to test if my web
> site works with all the browsers out there, but I will try to respond to
> trouble reports if I can.
>
> To the best of my knowledge this page is just a straightforward PDF
> file, and as noted in my earlier reply to Bill, when I download it in
> Safari, only the first slide appears in the window, but if I then hit
> the down arrow or Page Down keys, it steps thru all the subsequent
> pages.
>
> If anyone has advice on anything else that's needed here pls post or
> email me. What happens when you download other PDF files in Firefox?

There are settings in AcroRead which determine how much gets loaded
before being called for.

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