I see that on the Usenet boards others with Suse 10 have the same problem I have. When I click on a pdf link in FireFox I get a blank screen.

I checked the nppdf.so links and they look fine. Acroread works find in stand-alone mode.

Why won't the plug-in work?

Any ideas?

Al

If you visit "about:plugins" do you see the plugin loaded ok? Are there any other plugins associated with .pdf files?

Also, try starting firefox from a terminal and opening a pdf to see if any messages are sent to stderr.

From a terminal window, when invoking Firefox and then hitting a pdf link you get the following before FF dies.


NPP_SetWindow
original_x_errhandler: (nil)
NPP_SetWindow
NPP_SetWindow

-Al

Hi,

I am having the exact same problem (Suse 10, firefox 1.0.7, and pdf files) -including the same output to the terminal window. Has anyone managed to resolve this?

Thanks,

- Marcos.

I just got this fixed today. Do a search for a file called 'install-browser-plugin'. Then 'su' to root and run the script:

./install-browser-plugin

Do #1, Global (something), answering the questions it asks.

If it asks to over-write, say yes.

Then open FF and do the command about:plugins

Then try a pdf link. If it does not work, re-run the script. I had to do it twice before it 'took'.

Now you know why people don't like using a dot-zero version. Read my review at: http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT3405272862.html

Al

That worked great! In case anyone else has the same problem:

The file "instal-browser-plugin" can be found in the directory where acrobat 7 is installed. In the case of my Suse 10 installation, I found it in:

/usr/X11R6/lib/Acrobat7/Browser

I also needed to know the firefox install directory. Again, in my case:

/opt/MozillaFirefox/lib

and the mozilla install directory (did it just in case).

/opt/mozilla/lib

I ran the script once and it worked perfect. Thanks!

- Marcos.

Thanks. Worked for me on the first try as well.

Using SuSE 10.0 (fresh install)

same term output and no pdf rendering on Firefox

NPP_SetWindow
original_x_errhandler: (nil)
NPP_SetWindow
NPP_SetWindow


But not crashing, just a grey box on the browser space, if I type another URL it'll work.

Thanks Marcos,

It worked for me too.

It's clear now why using Google cache is a bad idea here, isn't it?

Hi I am facing the same problem you have discussed here. I was very happy of finding a solution to it, however when I looked for the installer file I did not find it. I tried in Yast but it did not help. Do you know where to find that installer? Thanks.

You won't find the installer file through yast. It should be in the directory where acrobat 7 is installed.

you need to do (in root mode) something like:

cd /usr/X11R6/lib/Acrobat7/Browser

./install_browser_plugin

and then follow the instructions.

Good luck!

- Marcos.

Or you can copy the plug in file from

/usr/X11R6/lib/Acrobat7/Browser

to the firefox plugin folder

opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/plugins

Close and Reopen Firefox (if open).

Thanks for your fast answer, I did not explain myself well. I did manually look for it in the directory you just mentioned. Now I realize that I was using dashes instead of underscores.

Thanks for the help. Unfortunately after some firefox launchings, after installing the plug in, the problem is the same : when loading a pdf file I get a blank page and in the status bar it says.. done.

I have noticed that I do not get in the help menu any "about plugins". I have to go through the preferences and then in Downloads->plug-ins I find that there is a plugin installed for pdf files.

Do you have any idea of what is happening?

shouldn't it be:

"install_browser_plugin"

(you seem to be searching for "installer-browser-plugin")

Are you certain that you have Acrobat 7 installed? You can check by typing aboutlugins in the firefox location bar.

The find command works fine for me. That is,

find / -type f -name install_browser_plugin

returns:

/usr/X11R6/lib/Acrobat7/Browser/install_browser_plugin

I can't think of much else! Good Luck,

- Marcos.

thanks for the hint about the aboutlugins.

I checked and it seems to be ok. every fromat pdf, fdf, etc in the "Adobe Reader 7.0" section is enab led.