Google Chrome Pdf plug-in missing

[kawshik84]

Hi,

Whenever I trying and open a pdf file in google chrome it shows a blank screen and says pdf plugin missing. However, firefox on the same machine works fine and shows pdf files.

I am a newbie to Ubuntu so please provide a detailed solution.

thanks.

[lovinglinux]

Try gPDF (https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/egljjohbmnnpicoiddaapkpejfpnmmpe) extension. I use the Firefox version and it works great.

[kalyp]

Same problem here. And it's a lucid problem, it worked fine in karmic yesterday.
The problem with the viewers involving google docs is that they change the url, adding https://docs.google.com/viewer?url= before it. I have a lot of PDF on the web linked from my computer but with their real URL... so gPDF doesn't work. And even in other cases (when adding the https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=) I sometimes get the message "Sorry, we are unable to retrieve the document for viewing".

In short, I'd like to understand what is wrong with chrome, pdf and lucid :) if anyone has an idea I'm interested.
Thanks.

[pgn674]

I had the same problem. So I opened up about:plugins in Google Chrome, clicked the details button in the top right, and did a page search (Ctrl+F) for "pdf". I found that mozplugger was installed somehow and set to handle .pdf files, so I used Synaptic Package Manager to uninstall that. Now PDFs open inside Firefox OK, and in Chrome it offers to save it as a file - no more need to right click and save link as.

Still looking to see if there is any way to view PDFs inside Chrome in Ubuntu.

Edit:
If you can't figure out what package is providing a given plugin, then copy the file name at the end of the location field in about:plugins, and use dlocate in terminal to find out which package provided that file. There might be another way other than dlocate, but I forget what it was.

[victorfuts]

Hi,

Whenever I trying and open a pdf file in google chrome it shows a blank screen and says pdf plugin missing. However, firefox on the same machine works fine and shows pdf files.

I am a newbie to Ubuntu so please provide a detailed solution.

thanks.

this is because google tries to use it's own pdf viewer rather than using external plugins.

what i do is simply disable viewing pdf in chrome:

1.go to : chrome://plugins/
2.disable "Chrome PDF Viewer "

after u done this, pdf will be downloaded.

[pgn674]

this is because google tries to use it's own pdf viewer rather than using external plugins.Actually, kawshik84 posted his question on May 13th, and the embedded Chrome PDF Viewer became available (http://blog.chromium.org/2010/06/bringing-improved-pdf-support-to-google.html) June 17.

I'm not sure how far it's been released for Linux so far, but right now the stable version (Google Chrome 5.0.375.99) doesn't have it at all. Beta / dev versions may have a nonworking entry for it in about:plugins, so if other people get the gray screen error, victorfuts's idea is a good one to check.

[infestor]

Actually, kawshik84 posted his question on May 13th, and the embedded Chrome PDF Viewer became available (http://blog.chromium.org/2010/06/bringing-improved-pdf-support-to-google.html) June 17.

I'm not sure how far it's been released for Linux so far, but right now the stable version (Google Chrome 5.0.375.99) doesn't have it at all. Beta / dev versions may have a nonworking entry for it in about:plugins, so if other people get the gray screen error, victorfuts's idea is a good one to check.

you are right, there is no PDF viewer plugin in chrome, so that solution does not work

[infestor]

any updates on the issue? is there an official or working plugin available yet?

[kalyp]

Actually I don't know about the plugin, but I just googled again this issue this morning and found http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=543f0c80bace6c42&hl=en
I tried the "popular answer" and it works!!

[koenr]

Thanks for the tip - solved my problem too