[NBLUG/talk] Installing Adobe Reader in Netscape

[Troy Arnold]

On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 06:13:55AM -0700, Todd Cary wrote:
> I have downloaded the Adobe Reader for Linux and have it working, but I 
> cannot get it to work as a plug-in with Netscape/Mozilla.  Does anyone 
> have experience with this?

Yeah, you should just need a symlink to the plugin from your browsers
plugin dir.  I happened to do mine system wide:
cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
ln -s /usr/lib/Acrobat5/Browsers/intellinux/nppdf.so

But you can also set up a symlink in your personal browser plugins dir
which should be somewhere under your home dir.  mozilla et al may still
look in ~/.netscape/plugins.  I'm not sure.

Also, xpdf is a pretty good, fast pdf reader.  It doesn't work as a
plugin, but can easily be set up to work as a helper app.  In most cases
I prefer it to Acrobat.

-troy