Re: Firefox Acroread plugin not working

[Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com>]

Chris Lale on 19/04/06 21:51, wrote:
> Adam Hardy wrote:
> > > I cannot view PDFs using Firefox in Etch (Testing). I get:
> > >
> > >    "There was an error while loading the plugin - ewh.api. The plugin 
> > > failed to initialize."
> > >
> > > I have these packages installed:
> > >
> > >    acroread 7.0.5-0.0
> > >    mozilla-acroread 7.0.5-0.0
> > >
> > > According to http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#Acrobat:
> > >    Adobe Reader    Version: 7.0.5
> > >
> > >   1. Install Adobe Reader.
> > >   2. Create a symbolic link to nppdf.so to your Mozilla plugins 
> > > directory.
> > >   3. Ensure a copy of acroread is in your PATH.
> > >
> > > On my system:
> > > 2. /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/pluginsnppdf.so is a symlink to 
> > > /usr/lib/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so
> > > 3. Acroread is in my path since I can launch it from a terminal 
> > > window with the command 'acroread'.
> >
> >
> > Chris,
> > I don't have the mozilla-acroread package in my sources for testing, 
> > so I can't test it. However I can run acroread on its own no problem. 
> > Can you?
> Hello Adam.
> Yes, acroread runs OK. Its just the Firefox plugin that has the problem. 
> I cannot open or save a PDF in Firefox.

You can't even save a pdf? Presumably because firefox tried to open it 
first and foobars?

Just a guess, but do you have execute permissions on 
/usr/lib/Adobe/..../nppdf.so?