On 2014-04-24 14:29, Kaare Rasmussen wrote:

Hi

A page I try to access demands acroread > 9.4. So I've installed 9.5. But I seem to be unable to tell firefox or chromium how to use acroread.

Shouldn't there be a plugin for this ? (yes, I've installed acroread-browser-plugin)

In firefox it's not listed in the add-on plugins section. In chromium, chrome://plugins/ doesn't list it.

Remember that Acroread was removed from the distribution, because Adobe stopped maintenance for version 9. In fact, they no longer support Linux at all. So, in order to use acrobat, you have to install old and obsolete versions, possibly with security problems. Plugin support might be removed as well. I certainly removed the firefox acrobat plugin. When I do need to use acrobat, I download the PDF and use a sort of jailed acroread. Otherwise, I use viewers like evince instead. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)

On 04/24/2014 10:37 AM, Kaare Rasmussen wrote:

Problem is this particular page. A municipality page (sigh) to register work on a building.

But then I may have to find someone with a Windows installed (sigh * 2). That may prove a problem. Not sure I know any.

If it's something you only need to access now, and not regularly, maybe something like: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh699156 in a VirtualBox VM or similar would allow you to have a functioning Windows/Acrobat setup for a few weeks, and get the job done. Good luck! -- Pablo M. Dotro pdotro@df.uba.ar Laboratorio de Ondas y Termodinámica Departamento de Física (FCEyN - UBA) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Sigh indeed. And it needs open inside the browser, it doesn't allow to download the file and open it outside of the browser?

Not by any means I can think of. Anyway, thanks for all the suggestions from you and Pablo. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

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Unfortunately, the Linux version of foxit is obsolete an unmaintained, at least the last time I looked, some months ago.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)