Acrobat reader 7.0 is out

[Christoph Georgi]

I would be happy if I would get any error message. I started firefox 
from the terminal, hoping for some output, but nothing :-/

.christoph

rpowersau at gmail.com wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:58:11 +1300, Christoph Georgi
> <christoph.georgi at web.de> wrote:
> 
>>The nppdf.so file is in the plugin dir of my actual firefox installation
>>( /opt/firefox1.0.1/plugins ), as I installed the plugin specifying
>>/opt/firefox1.0.1 as dir of my browser. And firefox does seem to accept
>>that plugin according to about:plugins, or am I mistaken?
> 
> 
> I get this error message when I try to open a pdf file in Firefox:
> 
> Could not launch Adobe Reader 7.0. Please make sure it exists in PATH
> variable in the environment.
> 
> 
>>Thanks
>>
>>.christoph
>>
>>
>>Bill Christiansen wrote:
>>
>>>You could run the install_browser_plugin script again and this time
>>>specify your actual browser directory, in your case /opt/mozilla-firefox
>>>or simply copy the nppdf.so file to /opt/mozilla-firefox/plugins. I
>>>notice it uses the actual file not a symbolic link like some plugins.
>>>
>>>On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 11:58 +1300, Christoph Georgi wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>The plugin is installed in mozilla's plugin directory and about:plugins
>>>>in firefox does state that the plugin is available (I'm using firefox
>>>>1.0.1 installed in /opt by root). Still, no pdf is opened in the browser?!
>>>>
>>>>Thanks
>>>>
>>>>.christoph
>>>>
>>>>Simon Santoro wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Christoph Georgi wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>I installed acrobat as root and everything works fine, except for the
>>>>>>browser plugin: I installed the plugin as decribed in the howto, as
>>>>>>root, but when opening a pdf in firefox nothing happens.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>you have to
>>>>>cd /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins
>>>>>sudo ln -s /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so
>>>>>          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>>>      path to your Acrobat install dir
>>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Christoph Georgi
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>>>
>>>
>>>
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