Acrobat reader 7.0 is out

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:58:11 +1300, Christoph Georgi
<christoph.georgi at web.de> wrote:
> The nppdf.so file is in the plugin dir of my actual firefox installation
> ( /opt/firefox1.0.1/plugins ), as I installed the plugin specifying
> /opt/firefox1.0.1 as dir of my browser. And firefox does seem to accept
> that plugin according to about:plugins, or am I mistaken?

I get this error message when I try to open a pdf file in Firefox:

Could not launch Adobe Reader 7.0. Please make sure it exists in PATH
variable in the environment.

> 
> Thanks
> 
> .christoph
> 
> 
> Bill Christiansen wrote:
> > 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
> >>>
> >>
> >>--
> >>
> >>
> >>Christoph Georgi
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> >>
> >
> >
> >
> 
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Regards,
Russ