Acrobat reader 7.0 is out

[David Coldrick]

So if you create a link to acroread in /usr/bin - which effectively
puts it on the PATH, as the message suggests, does it work?

Regards,
David


On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:33:11 +0800, rpowersau at gmail.com
<rpowersau at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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> > >
> > >
> > >
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