Re: acrobat reader as netscape plugin

[Johann Spies <jhspies@adept.co.za>]

On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 11:13:02PM -0700, user list wrote:

> I would like to use the acrobat reader as a plugin for Netscape. I
> have placed nppdf.so in the /usr/lib.../plugins directory with the
> other plugin. When I plugins using About plugins, it tells me that
> the plugin is where I want it, but that it is not enabled. Am I
> doing this correctly? If I am, how do I enable the plugin?  

I have the following in my ~/.mailcap

application/pdf;acroread %s

and in ~/.mime.types

type=application/pdf  \
desc="Portable Document Format"  \
exts="pdf" 

Regards.

Johann
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