Re: Firefox pdf plugin suddenly broken
On 5/21/05, Pollywog <linux-debian@shadypond.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 21 May 2005 11:48 pm, Ivan Teliatnikov wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 21:51 +0000, Pollywog wrote:
> > > On Saturday 21 May 2005 09:37 pm, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> > > > 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
> > >
> > > If you don't have the mozplugger package installed, try installing it.
> > > That might fix it for Firefox. Make sure you have a symlink in your
> > > mozilla-firefox plugins directory that points to mozplugger.so
> >
> > I tried using mozplugger and in my case it stopped acroread (as plugin)
> > from working. When I installed acroread, mozilla-acroread and
> > acroread-plugins and things went back to normal.
> >
> > I used this site to get acroread packages
> > # deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main
>
> I am using Adobe Acrobat Reader ver 7, not the Debian acroread packages.
I was using that too. I got rid of it, installed the Debian packages
(from testing, not unstable, as I have a 'testing' system and have the
marillat site in my sources already for mplayer) and odd behavior
persists. To test, I went to irs.gov, where there are lots of pdf
files. I was able to view them without trouble. But the files at
http://www.plr.uk.com/forms&leaflets/assigningrights/assigningindex.htm
not only don't display but break my browser's ability to display pdf
files. So maybe the problem is there not here. But those files look
fine when downloaded and viewed in acroread. So I'm puzzled.
Thanks to all for the help. If I figure out what the problem is I'll
let you know.
Patrick
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