firefox, acroread, pluginreg.dat ?

itsjustme · 05-03-2005, 11:45 AM

Acrobat 7.0 is not yet available in my Synaptic Package Manager on my Hoary box. So I downloaded the latest tar.gz file and installed it.

Now I have a /usr/local/Acrobat5 and a /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0

Currently, if I click on a pdf link in a web page it opens acroread for version 5.

I see in ~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat where it points to the version 5 acroread, but it also says not to edit the file.

Looking in the firefox preferences, I don't see what to do to update that pluginreg.dat.

Maybe that file is generated automatically, depending on what it discovers, rather than being generated from some direct input. Maybe I just need to go here:

Code:

bs@bsubuntu:/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins$ ls -l
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 59 2005-04-01 16:18 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/local/jre1.5.0_02/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 35 2005-04-01 16:38 mozplugger.so -> ../../mozilla/plugins/mozplugger.so
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 39 2005-04-18 15:20 mplayerplug-in.so -> ../../mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 48 2005-04-10 13:33 nppdf.so -> /usr/local/Acrobat5/Browsers/intellinux/nppdf.so

and redirect the link to nppdf.so to the Acrobat7.0 path and delete (or, well, rename) the pluginreg.dat file... and then it'll get regenerated.

I'm gonna try it!

itsjustme · 05-03-2005, 11:53 AM

I must be smarter than a hockey puck.

That worked.

webterractive · 05-03-2005, 12:03 PM

If your firefox install is mozilla-firefox then you just need to link the acroread and the plugin to the /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins directory. This will enable you to read .PDF files within the browser window. If you installed firefox-1.0.3 then you need to link the files to that plugin directory.

Step 1.
ln -sf /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin/acroread /usr/bin/

Step 2.
ln -sf /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin/acroread /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins
ln -sf /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin/Browsers/intellinux/nppdf.so /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins

That will enable you to use Adobe Acrobat 7.0 within the browser window, just using the nppdf.so won't work. Same thing applies for Acrobat 5.0.10.

Only use one of the browser plugins, either 5 or 7