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

[Bill Christiansen]

On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 14:11 -0700, zer0halo wrote:
> 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.
It might not work with a symlink for the plugin, did you try copying the
actual file into the plugin directory? (That is what the
install_browser_plugin script does)

> 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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