[Bug 3994] Re: Mozplugger doesn't open a pdf file

[Bernat Tallaferro]

Related to this issue, viewing pdfs does not work for me, either.

I am using Evince as a pdf viewer, and in order to get it working with
Epiphany/Firefox I added the following to /etc/mozpluggerrc:

repeat noisy swallow(evince) fill: evince "$file"

This seems to work for a couple of times, i.e. I can open pdfs with
Evince either in tabs or new windows. I am also experiencing the "tab
swallowing" issue Jeff Evans was describing on the previous post,
although I can live with that.

However, after having open a couple of pdf documents, this does not work
anymore. That is, clicking on a link containing a pdf file produces a
new empty browser window (or tab). This behaviour is exactly the same in
Evolution and Firefox.

After seeing this, I removed the Evince line from /etc/mozpluggerrc and
left the acroread entry there untouched, saved the file, and tried again
to open a pdf link.

The result being that no pdf file was displayed, I only got the empty
browser page (yes, acroreda is installed on my system, and I'm not using
the mozilla-acroread plugin because for some strange reason it does not
work with Epiphany).

BTW, I'm using Dapper.

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Mozplugger doesn't open a pdf file
https://launchpad.net/bugs/3994