On 2014-04-24 22:55, John Andersen wrote:
Unless you are unalterably opposed to running free commercial, non open-source software you can try http://www.foxitsoftware.com/downloads/ and select the linux version. And Okular works fairly well these days.
Unfortunately, the Linux version of foxit is obsolete an unmaintained, at least the last time I looked, some months ago. You have to use instead the Windows version, which runs /almost/ fine under Wine in Linux. The "almost" is because features like certificate verification do not work. However, the OP problem is that the site he has to use specifically requires adobe acroread as a plugin inside the browser. Apparently it is impossible to download the PDF and view it outside of the browser. Maybe, just maybe, the site would accept to work with other pdf viewers that integrate with firefox. FF has a native one... try that first. However, if the site uses some specific adobe security features, or worse of it all, DRM, only acroread will work, and possibly only the Windows version. Maybe the Android version. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)