acroread plugin in Firefox

[Rick Voland]

Norberto Meijome wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:28:16 -0500
> Rick Voland <rpvoland at spamcop.net> wrote:
> 
>> I am unable to get PDF documents to open properly in Firefox since I
>> updated to xorg 7.2 and linux_base-fc-4_10.
> 
> Rick,
> does Acrobat Reader work ok standalone?
> 

Yes, acroread works fine standalone (before and now).

> what does actually happen when you click on a link to a .pdf ?
> 
> have you got any other application mapped to it?
> 

I do not have any other application mapped to PDF in Firefox
preferences.  The default pluggerrc-5.1.3 file which I use has four
applications mapped to PDF, but acroread is first and gv is last.

> have you got the link :
> 
> $ ls -l /usr
> [...]
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel       10 May 21 14:30 X11R6 -> /usr/local
> 
> in place?

Yes, the link is there with the same permissions as you indicate.

> 
> have you registered the acroread plugin with nspluginwrapper ?
> 

Yes, the acroread plugin is registered with nspluginwrapper, and I
removed the file /etc/libmap.conf.  The flash plugin is registered in
the same way and works fine.

Note, that the acroread plugin does work for me when I disable the
plugin for plugger.

> FWIW,it works fine here... 
> 
> 
>> 1) It was working before these updates.
>>
>> 2) Now, a PDF document tries to open in a Firefox webpage.  gv opens
>> fine, but is unable to parse the PDF, leaving a completely blank page
>> with a link on the left for each page, but each page is blank.
>>
>> 3) I'm using:
>> FreeBSD-6.2-RELEASE-p5
>> firefox-2.0.0.4,1
>> acroread7-7.0.9_2,1
>>
>> 4) I made links in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins to the plugins (new
>> locations), and pointed /usr/local/lib/browser_linux_plugins and
>> /usr/local/lib/linux-mozilla to this main folder.
>>
>> 5) It was working fine with linuxpluginwrapper before the update, but
>> not after the update. So, I uninstalled linuxpluginwrapper and replaced
>> it with nspluginwrapper.
>>
>> 6) Firefox writes some complaints to the console about acroread7,
>> linuxflash7, and realplayer, but linuxflash7 and realplayer both work
>> fine now.
>>
>> 7) The acroread plugin appears in the list when I type "about:plugins"
>> into firefox.
>>
>> 8) The acroread plugin works properly if I move npplugger.so to
>> npplugger.so.off.  So, maybe this issue has to do with plugger.  I use
>> the default /usr/local/etc/pluggerrc-5.1.3.
>>
>> 9) There were no improvements when I added a link acroread7 -> acroread
>> , nor when I changed pluggerrc-5.1.3 to indicate acroread instead of
>> acroread7 .
>>
>> 10) All ports are up to date as of July 14.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestions.
>>
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