Thad Nielsen writes:
: 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?
: > : >
: <snip>
: > : > 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.
: <snip>
: > :
: > : 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.
: > :
: >
: <snip>
: >
: > 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.
: >
:
: 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.
Thanks Thad. That is very helpful, indeed. I understand
you don't have the fedora version of acroread, but at this
point I don't think it is relevant since acroread on my system
works perfectly from the commandline.
Might I ask you to for some system info from your machine?
What is the output of
#locate nppdf.so
Next, what is the output of
#rpm -q mozplugger
If you have mozplugger installed, would you kindly look in
/etc/mozpluggerrc, and search on "pdf" and include the stanza
in which it occurs. Please do the same for "acroread". Both
shd. be case-insensative searches. Thanks!
>From mine /etc/mozpluggerrc I get for these searches:
"pdf":
application/pdf:pdf:PDF file
application/x-pdf:pdf:PDF file
text/pdf:pdf:PDF file
text/x-pdf:pdf:PDF file
ACROREAD()
repeat noisy swallow(evince) fill: evince "$file"
repeat noisy swallow(kpdf) fill: kpdf "$file"
repeat noisy swallow(Xpdf) fill: xpdf -g +9000+9000 "$file"
GV()
"acroread":
### Acrobat Reader
define(ACROREAD_OPTS,[-geometry +9000+9000 -tempFileTitle acroread])
define(ACROREAD_FLAGS,[repeat swallow(acroread) fill])
ifelse(esyscmd([acroread -helpall | grep openInNewWindow]),[],[
define(ACROREAD,[ACROREAD_FLAGS(): acroread ACROREAD_OPTS() +useFrontEndProgram "$file"])
],[
define(ACROREAD,[ACROREAD_FLAGS(): acroread ACROREAD_OPTS() -openInNewWindow "$file"])
])
I hope from yours I can figure something out (not knowing what
on earth this above lines really mean) :-)
Dean
P.S. Anyone else tracking this thread and who can explain the above
will have my gratitude if you can debug my problem. :-)
