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Re: Firefox pdf plugin suddenly broken



On 5/21/05, Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/21/05, Pollywog <linux-debian@shadypond.com> wrote:
> > On Saturday 21 May 2005 08:50 pm, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> > > Hello, all:
> > >
> > > Suddenly, PDF files are not displaying properly.  I have Acrobat 7.0
> > > installed, and nppdf.so is in my /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins
> > > directory, and about:plugins lists it, but PDF files don't display any
> > > more.  If I download and view in acroread, it works fine.  Any ideas
> > > what may be amiss?
> >
> > I had the same problem and I am not sure what fixed it but I believe it was
> > that I had xpdf or some other PDF reader installed.  I removed it and the
> > files now display properly in Firefox and in the Konqueror file manager.
> 
> Thanks - I purged xpdf-reader and now it seems to be working.  Odd.

I spoke too soon.  It worked once, and then stopped again.  I can't
purge xpdf-utils because cups-pdf needs it.  Any other thoughts?

Patrick



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