frustrations with nppdf.so and mozilla 1.5

trinbellwoods · 12-07-2003, 02:57 PM

Alright, so I installed acrobat 5.0.8 and it's in /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread - it's in my PATH - acrobat reader works fine. I copied nppdf.so into my /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins directory, and it shows up when I do about:plugins, but when I try to view a pdf in mozilla it loads the page, but nothing shows up and it says "Done" in the status bar. Any insight/suggestions? I'm a little frustrated, after having googled for quite awhile without any result :(

another2 · 12-08-2003, 10:12 AM

odd, I sometimes have to hit refresh with my browser for a pdf to show up but, I've never had it show up blank. Also, I don't have the plugin installed and everything works. Have you tried removing the plugin and setting up your MIME type for pdf to open acrobat?

trinbellwoods · 12-08-2003, 02:10 PM

Well, my settings before were to open acrobat when mozilla found a pdf - and that worked okay, but I guess I got a bit lazy and wanted it the windows way where pdfs are embedded into the webpage. It's really not a huge problem. I was just wondering what was up with the plugin not working.

Anyways, thanks for the help!

Janina