On Sunday 20 November 2005 09:54 am, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Marshall,
On Sunday 20 November 2005 09:20, Marshall Lake wrote:
I'm running SuSE 10 (DVD). I have Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 installed and the plugin is set up in /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/plugins/ nppdf.so -> /usr/X11R6/lib/Acrobat7/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so I have verified that the plugin is active with about:plugins When loading, all Firefox displays is a gray screen, it does not load acroread. However, I can save the page, and read it with Acroread.
I had a problem with bringing up PDFs through Firefox. They just didn't come up even though the plug-ins looked fine. I ended up removing the acroread plug-in via Edit->Preferences->Downloads->Plug-ins Afterwards PDFs show up fine via Firefox using acroread even though acroread does not show up in the plug-ins list! (Firefox does ask me first, though, if I want to download the file or view it via acroread.)
Do you see the PDF _in the browser window_? That requires the plug-in. Otherwise, the browser just retrieves the PDF file to a temporary file and launches the external viewer (which could be Adobe Reader or kpdf or other PDF viewer).
That's the problem. Something is fscked up with the plugin in 10/1.0.6 and 1.0.7 - it doesn't work. Opening as an external app does work. I'd work on it but I want to be sure and read this first. http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf Of course, I can't read it because... -- kai www.perfectreign.com linux - genuine windows replacement part