Firefox + acroread7

[Eric Schuele]

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...
> 
> -- 
> Chris Hill               chris at monochrome.org
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Regards,
Eric