[NBLUG/talk] Installing Adobe Reader in Netscape

[Todd Cary]

Troy -

I had put the "so:" file into the incorrect directory...one up from the 
plugins....oh well, maybe today will be different :-) !

Todd

Troy Arnold wrote:

>On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 06:13:55AM -0700, Todd Cary wrote:
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>>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?
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>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
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>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.
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>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
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