Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3254 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 07 September 2002 20.58, Tom Nielsen wrote:
> I added Acrobat 5.0.5 a while ago, but 4.0 comes up when I access files
> on websites. I can't figure out how to prevent that. I manually entered
> 5.0.5 in netscape and mozilla, but it doesn't work. If I uninstall 4.0
> will I lose the ability to create pdf files?
>
> Any thoughts? Using SuSE 8.0 with KDE 3.0.3.

I installed acrobat 5.0.5 in mozilla by copying the nppdf.so file from 
/usr/local/Acrobat5/Browsers/intellinux to the plugins directory in mozilla. 
This makes mozilla use acrobat to view pdf files, but it will launch the 
first version of acroread it finds in its path, so I made a symlink

ln -s /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread /usr/local/bin/acroread

By default in SuSE, /usr/local/bin is before /usr/X11R6/bin in the user path, 
so this will make mozilla use acroread 5.0.5.

As for creating pdf files, you can't use acrobat *reader* to do that at all. 
With the Adobe tools I think it's only the commercial Acrobat suite that can 
do that. You can do it in kde (print to pdf) and StarOffice and elsewhere, 
but those programs use different tools.

regards
Anders