Firefox + acroread7
Eric Schuele
e.schuele at computer.org
Wed Nov 9 03:36:32 GMT 2005
Chris Hill wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Eric Schuele wrote:
>
>> I'm having difficulties getting acroread7 to work within firefox-1.0.7.
>
>
> [...]
>
>> I copied libmap.conf-FreeBSD6 to /etc/libmap.conf. Cut some stuff
>> out. Left in the acroread sections (among others):
>>
>> # Acrobat7 with Mozilla/Firebird/Galeon/Epiphany/Konqueror
>> #[/usr/compat/linux/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so]
>>
>> [/usr/local/lib/acroread/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so]
>>
>> libc.so.6 pluginwrapper/acrobat.so
>>
>> Note that I changed the [pointer?] to where the shared object actually
>> resides.
>
>
> I noticed. Why?
>
> I left mine at the default (the line you commented out above) and mine
> works. That is, if I click on a hyperlink to a PDF, the PDF opens in a
> browser window.
>
>> I also created a symlink from /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/nppdf.so
>> ->
>> /usr/local/lib/acroread/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so
>>
>
>
> My link in /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins looks like
> nppdf.so ->
> /compat/linux/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so
>
> Is there another nppdf.so on your system?
No... just the one.
> Maybe you had previously
> installed a FreeBSD-native Mozilla-family browser? I think that if
> you're using linuxpluginwrapper you need to point the link to the linux
> nppdf.so. Just a thought.
>
> I'm on 5.4-RELEASE-p8, not 6.0 like you, so that may account for the
> different path. Or not. But you may want to take a look in that
> /compat/linux... directory and see what's there.
I have... the path stops at /compat/linux/usr there is no local/ anything!?
very strange.
I had this all working once upon a time. Updates (no telling when) have
broken it.
Thanks.
>
> HTH...
>
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> Chris Hill chris at monochrome.org
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Regards,
Eric
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