Re: Problems with pdf files
Well, that is not practical since My tax site I use is done is adobe. So I went down through the list of helper aplications and found one that said application/portable document format. It was set to kghostview. so I changed it to plugin and that works.
Thanks for your help anyways.
Brian
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls <ke6sls@snowcrest.net> said:
>
> Brian,
>
> Is it possible to download the pdf file you need (right click in
> netscape, save link as)? If so, save it and use acroreader to read
> it by starting acroread and open the file that way.
>
> Most all of my netscape pluggin's are broken here too. I don't know
> why, but short of a complete re-install of netscape . . .
>
> I have attempted to use the kde file associations too, and most of the
> time, this is just broken in the 2.1beta_x (running potato here).
>
> I am hoping that the final kde will fix these bugs.
>
> hth
>
> On Sunday 04 February 2001 12:24, Brian Schramm wrote:
> > Help! I am deperate. I use to be able to use acroread from adobe with
> > netscape. Now for some reason it keeps trying to open kghostview. That
> > will not view the file I need to view. I need my acroread back. Now to
> > let you know what I have done to try to get it back.
> >
> > I went into the preferences file accociations and removed kghostview from
> > the pdf discription.
> >
> > I reinstalled acroread first by deb and then by going out to the adobe site
> > and getting the reader from there. It still tryes to pull up the
> > kghostview.
> >
> > When I go into about plugins and look at the acroreader plugin and it says
> > it is not inabled. Why is it not inabled and how do I get my acroread back
> > again?
> >
> > Thanks
>
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