Discoverer Plus on Apple

Hi everyone
Just curious but has anyone ever been able to get Discoverer Plus to work ok on an Apple. If so, what browser did you use and did you have to do anything special to make it work?
Please let me know if you have been able to get this to work - or if you have tried and failed.
Best wishes
Michael
Edited by: Michael Armstrong-Smith on Apr 26, 2011 1:19 PM

It seems that Mozilla has a problem with the SUN JRE. The Blackdown JRE for 1.4.1 works fine. However, if you try to use the Blackdown 1.4.2 JRE which is still in RC state. Mozilla crahes. Presumably the final will work.

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i have moved this thread to this forum from discoverer.
Dear,
ebs 12.0.6
OS OUL5x64
AS 10.1.2.3
using bi 10.1.2.3 with discoverer
Discoverer Version:Server 10.1.2.55.26
when connect to the viewer like
http:10.10.10.10:7778/viewer
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Please advise how to fix this error.
Regards,
Tom

Hi Huusein,
i found these file in application tier, they were all upper case.
ALBANWTJ.ttf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 oracle oinstall 18777080 Dec 29 2006 ALBANWTK.ttf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 oracle oinstall 18676032 Dec 29 2006 ALBANWTS.ttf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 oracle oinstall 18788548 Dec 29 2006 ALBANWTT.ttf
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and restart the opmnctl again but it still could not display Chinese in discoverer/plus
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AlbanWTK.ttf
AlbanWTS.ttf
AlbanWTT.ttf
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Hi Yjk
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Regards
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Kevin
Edited by: cmingl on Feb 11, 2010 1:30 PM

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Edited by: SachinK on Feb 26, 2009 1:26 PM

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Hi,
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I got a question from user in Discoverer plus, this is an urgent need.
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I didnt get you, can you explain in brief.
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