[xubuntu-users] Google Chrome & PDF viewing, etc.

[Ric Moore]

On 08/22/2013 01:56 PM, Tim wrote:
> On 22/08/13 14:04, Paul Cartwright wrote:
>> On 08/22/2013 08:40 AM, Darren Govoni wrote:
>>> Maybe this isn't the group to ask, but I notice that the Google
>>> chrome installed by Xubuntu/Ubuntu lacks any kind of PDF viewing
>>> capability.
>>> Mine just downloads. Chrome is supposed to have PDF viewing built in.
>>> Also, I couldn't find any adobe reader plugins in the repo like in
>>> versions past.
>>> I also tried to find the java plugin in the repo and it was gone too...
>>>
>>> Does this work for anyone else? Or is there a trick to get this
>>> simple feature back in place? Chrome is really annoying...
>> I fired up Google, and went to extensions/get more extensions...
>> plenty of choices there, including ( under extensions)
>>
>> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/pdf?hl=en-US
>>
>> Docs PDF/PowerPoint Viewer ( by Google)
>>
>> --
>> Paul Cartwright
>>
>>
> I downloaded and installed Chrome direct from google (have a line in the
> repo's for google) and installed Adobe Reader and it opens PDF's without
> a problem, have not had to play with extension or anything. Maybe the
> Xubuntu version of chrome has been tweaked so it does not work.


More likely, you have to do as you do with Firefox and TELL IT which 
application to use for .pdf files. Chrome couldn't come with Adobe 
installed by default as it is proprietary and needs you to accept the 
terms of their license separately. Otherwise Google would be in a world 
of legal hurt. Plus, look at the legal rants when Windows installed 
Explorer by default. Everyone sued.

Maybe you're thinking of Chrome OS? Ric

p/s anytime you install something outside the repo system, you're pretty 
much on your own. :)

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