Re: Firefox Acroread plugin not working
Chris Lale 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/plugins/nppdf.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'.
According to Acroread Help -> About Adobe Plugins, ewh is loaded. There
is a note to say that that the Netscape plugin is required for loading
(this seems to be the nppdf.so file above)
Adam Hardy wrote:
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?
No. Now added, but the error persits.
/usr/lib/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux# ls -l
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4750331 2005-11-07 02:32 nppdf.so
Jonathan Kaye wrote:
I'm also using Etch 2.6.15-i686. I have nppdf.so in my ~/.mozilla/plugins/
folder. It is not a link but an actual copy. The Acrobat plugin works fine
in Firefox. Why not give that a try.
Replacing the symlink with a copy does not work either:
/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins# ls -l
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4750331 2006-04-21 09:38 nppdf.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 2006-01-28 15:59 nppdf.so.old ->
../../Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so
Which version of the mozilla-acroread package are you running?
Cheers,
Chris.
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