Acrobat 7.0 Firefox plugin (was: Acrobat reader 7.0 is out)

[zer0halo]

I still don't get anything in FF, even when clicking on a URL that
ends in .pdf. The tab goes blank and that's it.

I have Adobe Reader 7 properly installed and working, with a symlink
to /usr/local/bin as indicated below. I also have a symlink in the
mozilla-firefox/plugins folder that links to the Reader 7 plugin.
Anything else I shoudl be doing?


On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:25:58 +1200, Christoph Georgi
<christoph.georgi at web.de> wrote:
> As I wrote before, the plugin is working perfectly in firefox after
> creating the link, BUT ONLY if the url is "*.pdf". Looking at Windows,
> Acrobat is opened in firefox even though the ending of the url is not
> ".pdf". I guess that for windows the plugin is used whenever the mime
> type is pdf, but I haven't looked into that. (Concrete example is the
> ebsco host database, if some of you have access to it..)
> 
> .christoph
> 
> Bob Nielsen wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 06:26:35AM +1200, Bill Christiansen wrote:
> >
> >>The acroread file needs a link in the path foe firefox to find, type the
> >>following in a terminal:
> >>cd /usr/local/bin
> >>sudo ln -s /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin/acroread
> >
> >
> > Actually:
> >
> >   sudo ln -s /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin/acroread acroread
> >                                                       ^^^^^^^^
> >
> > I installed it by converting the rpm to a deb with alien.  It created
> > /usr/bin/acroread, but that was a file of zero length!  Replacing it
> > with a symlink worked, of course.
> >
> > When I start acroread, I get an error that the PPKlite.api plugin failed
> > to initialize, but otherwise it appears to work fine.
> >
> > Bob
> >
> >
> 
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