Acrobat reader 7.0 is out

Bill Christiansen bill.christiansen at paradise.net.nz
Tue Mar 15 23:26:35 UTC 2005


You could run the install_browser_plugin script again and this time
specify your actual browser directory, in your case /opt/mozilla-firefox
or simply copy the nppdf.so file to /opt/mozilla-firefox/plugins. I
notice it uses the actual file not a symbolic link like some plugins.

On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 11:58 +1300, Christoph Georgi wrote:
> The plugin is installed in mozilla's plugin directory and about:plugins 
> in firefox does state that the plugin is available (I'm using firefox 
> 1.0.1 installed in /opt by root). Still, no pdf is opened in the browser?!
> 
> Thanks
> 
> .christoph
> 
> Simon Santoro wrote:
> > Christoph Georgi wrote:
> > 
> >> I installed acrobat as root and everything works fine, except for the 
> >> browser plugin: I installed the plugin as decribed in the howto, as 
> >> root, but when opening a pdf in firefox nothing happens.
> >>
> > 
> > you have to
> > cd /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins
> > sudo ln -s /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so
> >            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >        path to your Acrobat install dir
> > 
> 
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