Re: acrobat 7 plugin for mozilla/firefox works, and it does not

[Andrea Mennucc <mennucc1@debian.org>]

Jonathan Kaye wrote:
> En/La A Mennucc ha escrit, a 18/04/05 14:12:
> | hi
> |
> | I have installed the new Acrobat Reader 7 , as prepackaged for
> | Debian users, thanks to  Christian Marillat ; I added
> |  deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ testing main
> | to /etc/apt/sources.list, and install packages:
> |   acroread ,  mozilla-acroread    acroread-plugins
> |
> | As pointed out in
> | http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/03/msg03495.html
> | I have copied
> | /usr/lib/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so
> | inside  /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins
> | (whereas the package   mozilla-acroread creates a symlink)
> |
> | The browser plugin , though, has some bugs.
>
> <snip>
>
> | In Firefox, the behaviour is slightly different: the plugin dies, and
> | this line
> | /  Acrobat plug-in. This operation is not allowed
> | /appears on the terminal where firefox was ran from. Firefox does not
> | spin forever./
> | /
> | Can you confirm the above behaviour ?
> |
> I'm running Firefox 1.03 on Debian Sarge 2.6.8
> The first test with the embedded pdf. displays the Preview and the Links
> section. The embedded pdf which should show up between (I suppose) does
> not appear but the functioning of the pdf plugin is fine.

(I guess you are trying to view the page
  http://tonelli.sns.it/pub/mennucc1/tmp/embedpdf.html
where the PDF should appear between two horizontal rules, under the
"preview" heading,above the "links" heading)

I am puzzled... you say that you do not see the embedded PDF in the
HTML page,   ....  but you also say that the pdf plugin is fine?

what do you mean by "fine"?

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