Dean S. Messing [deanm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] wrote: > > Thad Nielsen writes: > : Dean S. Messing [deanm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] wrote: > : > > : > I'm unable to get Adobe `acroread' to run within Mozilla. > : > Would someone who knows give me some pointers please? > : > > : > I'm running an up-to-date FC5 system. Selinux is disabled. Both > : > `acroread' and `mozilla-acroread' are installed (from the Dries > : > repository). And I've verified that acroread works from the > : > commandline. > : > > : > Yet when I try to view a .pdf from w/in mozilla, I get nothing. On a > : > large .pdf, I can see mozilla taking time to read the file in, but > : > then I just get a blank mozilla window. acroread is not being started > : > at all. > : > > : > How do I begin to debug this? > : > > : > Thanks > : > Dean > : > > : > : Dean, I also run an uptodate FC5 with selinux disabled. I am running > : mozilla 1.7.13-1.1.fc5 and AdobeReader_enu 7.05.-1 from Adobe itself. > : I have no trouble opening PDF files from within mozilla. Sorry that I > : know nothing of the Dries repository. You might examine your > : /var/log/messages file for any helpful error messages. You might try > : Xpdf on the same PDF files that give you trouble in Adobe Reader. You > : might replace your Adobe Reader with the one at adobe.com. Hope some > : of this is helpful to you. > : > > Thanks very much for the response Thad. > >From this: > > # rpm -q mozilla > mozilla-1.7.13-1.1.fc5 > # rpm -q acroread > acroread-7.0.5-2.2.fc5.rf > > I am running the same version of mozilla as you. > I think this is the same acroread as well but if needed > I'll de-install it and go tothe one from Adobe. > > However, acroread itself is working fine. I have invoked it > on several .pdf files from the commandline, including ones I downloaded > from the Web that mozilla/acroread would not show. > > Question: Do you also have "mozilla-acroread" installed? > > It provides "/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so" so if you don't > then there is a major difference between you and me. > > Also: does your acroread run within the mozilla windeow itself > or does acroread start up "on the side" in its own window. > > Thanks for you help! > > Dean > Dean, I do NOT have mozilla-acroread, so that is different. I also do not have the Fedora version of Adobe Reader but the Adobe version. The Adobe Reader on my system is called from mozilla when mozilla encounters a PDF file and Adobe Reader opens in its own window. Hope this is helpful. T.
