aam-aadmi
July 9th, 2006, 10:31 PM
I had been having problems with the adobe plug-in in Mozilla. Whenever I tried to read an embedded pdf file in Firefox, I would get a blank page. Though I had installed the acroread package and the plug-ins, it was still not working.
A little more searching in this forum led me to a thread where this had been solved; I followed the advice and things now work. I thought I should write up the solution breifly, and here it is.
Download and save the following:
http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/7x/7.0.5/enu/AdobeReader_enu-7.0.5-1.i386.tar.gz
(I saved it on my Desktop.)
Extract the files on the Desktop. You will be able to see a folder called AdobeReader.
Open AdobeReader, then open ILINX.TAR, then open Browser, then open Intelinux. You will see the following file: nppdf.so
Extract nppdf.so to the Desktop.
Now open the terminal and type the following command:
sudo cp /home/username/Desktop/nppdf.so /usr/lib/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so
(replace "username" with whatever is relevant for you in the first part of the above command)
Now re-start Firefox and you should be able to read embedded pdf files from within Firefox!
A little more searching in this forum led me to a thread where this had been solved; I followed the advice and things now work. I thought I should write up the solution breifly, and here it is.
Download and save the following:
http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/7x/7.0.5/enu/AdobeReader_enu-7.0.5-1.i386.tar.gz
(I saved it on my Desktop.)
Extract the files on the Desktop. You will be able to see a folder called AdobeReader.
Open AdobeReader, then open ILINX.TAR, then open Browser, then open Intelinux. You will see the following file: nppdf.so
Extract nppdf.so to the Desktop.
Now open the terminal and type the following command:
sudo cp /home/username/Desktop/nppdf.so /usr/lib/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so
(replace "username" with whatever is relevant for you in the first part of the above command)
Now re-start Firefox and you should be able to read embedded pdf files from within Firefox!