Acrobat 7 freezes on Firefox

Jim Sabatke

15 Mar 2005 15 Mar '05

22:25

Freshmeat reported that Acrobat 7 was available today, so I downloaded and installed it on my 9.0 system. It seems to work great as a standalone, but freezes Firefox when I try to open a PDF file. I setup the link to nppdf.so to the correct file. Has anyone else seen this problem? Thanks, Jim

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Andreas Philipp

15 Mar 15 Mar

22:24

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El Mar 15 Mar 2005 17:25, Jim Sabatke escribió:

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Freshmeat reported that Acrobat 7 was available today, so I downloaded and installed it on my 9.0 system. It seems to work great as a standalone, but freezes Firefox when I try to open a PDF file.

Works great here on 8.2/FF1.0.1. I downloaded last night and installed the plugin using the install script which is delivered with Acrobat Reader. On my system I installed it into the default location, and the script is in /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser. -- Andreas Philipp Noema Ltda. Bogotá, D.C. - Colombia http://www.noemasol.com

Tony Alfrey

16 Mar 16 Mar

01:30

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On Tuesday 15 March 2005 02:24 pm, Andreas Philipp wrote:

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El Mar 15 Mar 2005 17:25, Jim Sabatke escribió:

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Freshmeat reported that Acrobat 7 was available today, so I downloaded and installed it on my 9.0 system. It seems to work great as a standalone, but freezes Firefox when I try to open a PDF file.

Works great here on 8.2/FF1.0.1. I downloaded last night and installed the plugin using the install script which is delivered with Acrobat Reader. On my system I installed it into the default location, and the script is in /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser.

Where did you find this? The only version I see for linux at Adobe is version 5.0, in spite of clicking on the 7.0 download. What was the filename of the ~.tar.gz that you downloaded? -- Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey@earthlink.net "I'd Rather Be Sailing"

Andreas Philipp

01:30

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El Mar 15 Mar 2005 20:30, Tony Alfrey escribió:

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Where did you find this? The only version I see for linux at Adobe is version 5.0, in spite of clicking on the 7.0 download. What was the filename of the ~.tar.gz that you downloaded?

ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/7x/7.0/enu/ This link was reported yesterday on the Spanish SuSE list. -- Andreas Philipp Noema Ltda. Bogotá, D.C. - Colombia http://www.noemasol.com

Randall R Schulz

01:36

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Andreas, On Tuesday 15 March 2005 17:30, Andreas Philipp wrote:

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El Mar 15 Mar 2005 20:30, Tony Alfrey escribió:

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Where did you find this? The only version I see for linux at Adobe is version 5.0, in spite of clicking on the 7.0 download. What was the filename of the ~.tar.gz that you downloaded?

ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/7x/7.0/enu/

Hallelujah! And, if I may say so, it's about freakin' time.

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This link was reported yesterday on the Spanish SuSE list.

Gracias!

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Andreas Philipp

Randall Schulz

Randall R Schulz

01:49

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Yo! Ohmygod. It works. It's pretty. Keyboard shortcuts work. It has the fancy searching stuff. It can handle the latest PDF versions. It uses GKT2. It's got options out the wazoo (something only a geek can love, of course). And if I'm not mistaken, font rendering is noticeably better than I'm accustomed to from Linux. It's actually Linux-friendly. E.g., it knows about six different email clients, including KMail, Evolution and Mutt. There's a fast-find cache. I turned it off. Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you, Adobe. Oh, yeah. It has little ads in the toolbar and for some reason, Yahoo!'s Web search is integrated. I guess you can't have everything. Randall Schulz On Tuesday 15 March 2005 17:36, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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Andreas,

On Tuesday 15 March 2005 17:30, Andreas Philipp wrote:

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El Mar 15 Mar 2005 20:30, Tony Alfrey escribió:

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Where did you find this? The only version I see for linux at Adobe is version 5.0, in spite of clicking on the 7.0 download. What was the filename of the ~.tar.gz that you downloaded?

ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/7x/7.0/enu/

Hallelujah! And, if I may say so, it's about freakin' time.

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This link was reported yesterday on the Spanish SuSE list.

Gracias!

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Andreas Philipp

Randall Schulz

Stan Glasoe

16:26

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On Tuesday 15 March 2005 7:49 pm, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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Yo!

Ohmygod. It works. It's pretty. Keyboard shortcuts work. It has the fancy searching stuff. It can handle the latest PDF versions. It uses GKT2. It's got options out the wazoo (something only a geek can love, of course). And if I'm not mistaken, font rendering is noticeably better than I'm accustomed to from Linux. It's actually Linux-friendly. E.g., it knows about six different email clients, including KMail, Evolution and Mutt. There's a fast-find cache. I turned it off.

Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you, Adobe.

Oh, yeah. It has little ads in the toolbar and for some reason, Yahoo!'s Web search is integrated. I guess you can't have everything.

Randall Schulz

On Tuesday 15 March 2005 17:36, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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Andreas,

On Tuesday 15 March 2005 17:30, Andreas Philipp wrote:

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El Mar 15 Mar 2005 20:30, Tony Alfrey escribió:

BUSTED! You top-posted Randall! Yikes! All is forgiven however because I can't agree more with your assessment and excitement over this release from Adobe. This is really slick. So far its correctly opened PDFs from my brother who uses Mac and does my business cards that didn't open or print correctly under 5.x. Remember, just teasing about top-posting! Stan

B. Stia

17 Mar 17 Mar

04:53

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On Tuesday 15 March 2005 20:49, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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Yo!

Ohmygod. It works. It's pretty. Keyboard shortcuts work. It has the fancy searching stuff. It can handle the latest PDF versions. It uses GKT2. It's got options out the wazoo (something only a geek can love, of course). And if I'm not mistaken, font rendering is noticeably better than I'm accustomed to from Linux. It's actually Linux-friendly. E.g., it knows about six different email clients, including KMail, Evolution and Mutt. There's a fast-find cache. I turned it off.

Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you, Adobe.

And hopefully one of our list gurus will build a 64 bit version for the rest of less knowledgeable, untalented, and probably lazy types. Bob S.

Jim Sabatke

08:17

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B. Stia wrote:

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On Tuesday 15 March 2005 20:49, Randall R Schulz wrote:

And hopefully one of our list gurus will build a 64 bit version for the rest of less knowledgeable, untalented, and probably lazy types.

Bob S.

Unfortunately, Adobe doesn't provide source code, so Adobe will have to provide that. Jim

Tony Alfrey

16 Mar 16 Mar

01:46

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On Tuesday 15 March 2005 05:30 pm, Andreas Philipp wrote:

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El Mar 15 Mar 2005 20:30, Tony Alfrey escribió:

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Where did you find this? The only version I see for linux at Adobe is version 5.0, in spite of clicking on the 7.0 download. What was the filename of the ~.tar.gz that you downloaded?

ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/7x/7.0/enu/

This link was reported yesterday on the Spanish SuSE list.

Thanks!. 110MB. Hmmm, whatever happened to compact, efficient code? ;-) -- Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey@earthlink.net "I'd Rather Be Sailing"

Andreas Philipp

01:49

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El Mar 15 Mar 2005 20:46, Tony Alfrey escribió:

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Thanks!. 110MB. Hmmm, whatever happened to compact, efficient code?

Roughly 40 MB ... have you found the link to the new Linux distiller software? -- Andreas Philipp Noema Ltda. Bogotá, D.C. - Colombia http://www.noemasol.com

Randall R Schulz

01:57

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Andreas, On Tuesday 15 March 2005 17:49, Andreas Philipp wrote:

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El Mar 15 Mar 2005 20:46, Tony Alfrey escribió:

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Thanks!. 110MB. Hmmm, whatever happened to compact, efficient code?

Roughly 40 MB ... have you found the link to the new Linux distiller software?

Are you asking, telling us about it or teasing? In the past Distiller was part of Acrobat, which is rather pricey. I found a used copy of Acrobat 5.0, which happens to run pretty well under CrossOver Office. Naturally, you don't get integrated print-to-PDF as you would under Windows, but if you've got PostScript, you can turn it into a PDF.

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Andreas Philipp

Randall Schulz

Andreas Philipp

01:59

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Randall, El Mar 15 Mar 2005 20:57, Randall R Schulz escribió:

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Roughly 40 MB ... have you found the link to the new Linux distiller software? Are you asking, telling us about it or teasing?

Teasing ... I know you don't aprreciate smileys in email, but imagine me smiling.

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Randall Schulz -- Andreas Philipp Noema Ltda. Bogotá, D.C. - Colombia http://www.noemasol.com

Joe Morris (NTM)

01:42

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Tony Alfrey wrote:

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Where did you find this? http://freshmeat.net/redir/acrobatreader/92/url_rpm/AdobeReader_enu-7.0.0-1.... The only version I see for linux at Adobe is version 5.0, in spite of clicking on the 7.0 download. Looks like they haven't updated their site yet. What was the filename of the ~.tar.gz that you downloaded? They have an rpm. That would be better. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871

Juan Antonio Valiño García

20:37

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El Martes 15 Marzo 2005 23:25, Jim Sabatke escribió:

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Freshmeat reported that Acrobat 7 was available today, so I downloaded and installed it on my 9.0 system. It seems to work great as a standalone, but freezes Firefox when I try to open a PDF file.

I setup the link to nppdf.so to the correct file.

Has anyone else seen this problem?

Yes, I have the same problem. In standalone mode Acrobat 7 works fine, but within FireFox a blank page is displayed. Anyone has solution to this problem?

Ed Harrison

21:26

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** Reply to message from Juan Antonio Valiño García on Wed, 16 Mar 2005 21:37:43 +0100

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Yes, I have the same problem. In standalone mode Acrobat 7 works fine, but within FireFox a blank page is displayed.

Anyone has solution to this problem?

Go to /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/ and run install_browser_plugin. It gives you a choice of 2 methods. I chose the local versus the global method. It put nppdf.so in $HOME/.mozilla/plugins. Now it works. Ed Harrison SuSE 9.1, Kernel 2.6.9-vanilla PolarBar Mailer 1.25a

Jim Sabatke

23:37

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Ed Harrison wrote:

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** Reply to message from Juan Antonio Valiño García on Wed, 16 Mar 2005 21:37:43 +0100

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Yes, I have the same problem. In standalone mode Acrobat 7 works fine, but within FireFox a blank page is displayed.

Anyone has solution to this problem?

Go to /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/ and run install_browser_plugin.

It gives you a choice of 2 methods. I chose the local versus the global method. It put nppdf.so in $HOME/.mozilla/plugins.

Now it works.

Ed Harrison SuSE 9.1, Kernel 2.6.9-vanilla PolarBar Mailer 1.25a

Tried that. It still locks firefox loading a pdf. Thanks, Jim

Fred

23:00

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Le Mardi 15 Mars 2005 23:25, Jim Sabatke a écrit :

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Freshmeat reported that Acrobat 7 was available today, so I downloaded and installed it on my 9.0 system. It seems to work great as a standalone, but freezes Firefox when I try to open a PDF file. On Suse 9.2 do the following :

close Firefox open Konsole su - root cd /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/plugins ln -sf /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so nppdf.so start firefox : http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/intro-linux.pdf and you're done.

Fred

23:02

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Le Jeudi 17 Mars 2005 00:00, Fred a écrit :

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Le Mardi 15 Mars 2005 23:25, Jim Sabatke a écrit :

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Freshmeat reported that Acrobat 7 was available today, so I downloaded and installed it on my 9.0 system. It seems to work great as a standalone, but freezes Firefox when I try to open a PDF file. On Suse 9.2 do the following :

close Firefox open Konsole

su - root cd /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/plugins ln -sf /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so nppdf.so

start firefox : http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/intro-linux.pdf

and you're done.

after having installed it from here of course : http://freshmeat.net/redir/acrobatreader/92/url_rpm/AdobeReader_enu-7.0.0-1....

Jim Sabatke

23:30

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Fred wrote:

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Le Mardi 15 Mars 2005 23:25, Jim Sabatke a écrit :

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Freshmeat reported that Acrobat 7 was available today, so I downloaded and installed it on my 9.0 system. It seems to work great as a standalone, but freezes Firefox when I try to open a PDF file.

On Suse 9.2 do the following :

close Firefox open Konsole

su - root cd /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/plugins ln -sf /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so nppdf.so

start firefox : http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/intro-linux.pdf

and you're done.

Actually, that's exactly how I've done it everytime I upgrade firefox, and how I did it this time. I have a script that updates all my plugins when I update firefox. Thanks, Jim

Jim Sabatke

17 Mar 17 Mar

02:03

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Fred wrote:

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Le Mardi 15 Mars 2005 23:25, Jim Sabatke a écrit :

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Freshmeat reported that Acrobat 7 was available today, so I downloaded and installed it on my 9.0 system. It seems to work great as a standalone, but freezes Firefox when I try to open a PDF file.

On Suse 9.2 do the following :

close Firefox open Konsole

su - root cd /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/plugins ln -sf /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so nppdf.so

start firefox : http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/intro-linux.pdf

and you're done.

One thing more. After firefox freezes and I use "alt ctrl esc" to kill it, the next time I run firefox I get the following messages: jim@ripley:~> firefox GConf Error: Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0 GConf Error: Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0 until I logout and login my user again. Jim

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Andreas Philipp
B. Stia
Ed Harrison
Fred
Jim Sabatke
Joe Morris (NTM)
Juan Antonio Valiño García
Randall R Schulz
Stan Glasoe
Tony Alfrey