Firefox + acroread7

Eric Schuele e.schuele at computer.org
Wed Nov 9 04:22:57 GMT 2005


Frank Jahnke wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 21:32 +0000, Eric Schuele wrote:
> 
> 
>>Yes!  That's the problem exactly.  In fact I was getting the 'undefined 
>>symbol' error up until I changed the libmap.conf to point to where the 
>>nppdf.so resides.  At that point the error went away and the plugin was 
>>available in the about:plugins dialog.  However, the pdf fails to load.
>>
>>Is there in fact no known workaround?  Maybe an older version?
> 
> 
> The only one that I am aware of is intentionally to put the wrong
> directories in libmap.conf for the Adobe Reader, or remove the plugin
> entirely.  Then you can at least choose the application that opens the
> PDF, at least in Gnome.  That's a good working definition for a kludge,
> but I know of no others at the moment.
> 

Yes... thank you.  I was responding to my own post when I got yours. 
Thanks for the help.

> You could of course use a different PDF reader, but honestly I like the
> Adobe Reader the best.  Evince is just too slow to be useful, and the
> others just feel klunky to me.
> 
> Frank
> 
> 
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Regards,
Eric


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