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From: "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@ds.net>
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To: Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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Subject: Re: Acrobat4 Plugin for Netscape
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Mark Ovens wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 03:28:01PM -0500, James A. Mutter wrote:
> > I realize that this is slightly off topic, but I'm sure that someone has
> > the answer.
> >
> > I'm trying to install Acrobat4 as a plugin for Netscape and I'm not
> > having any luck at all.
> >
> > I'm using linux-netscape-communicator-4.7 and Acrobat4 from the ports
> > collection.  So far I've tried the following:
> >   cp nppdf.so /usr/local/lib/netscape-linux/plugins/ (That doesn't work)
> >   ln -s /usr/local/Acrobat4/Browsers/intellinux/nppdf.so
> > /usr/local/lib/netscape-linux/plugins/ (That doesn't work either)
> >

Heh - I should have looked at the console before I sent the last
message.  It looks like it's complaining something about not being able
to find libc.so.5.  This should be easy enough to fix.


Thanks for the help.
Jim

> 
> Hmm, I'm using Netscape-linux 4.61, not 4.7, but I've got nppdf.so in
> /usr/local/netscape-4.61/plugins and it works fine (and shows up in
> Help->About Plug-ins).
> 
> Does it show up as a Helper? It may be necessary to set this up
> manually. Edit->Preferences->Navigator->Applications then either edit
> the "application/pdf" entry if it exists or add it if not. The settins
> I use are:
> 
>   Description : Portable Document Format
> 
>   MIMEType : application/pdf
> 
>   Siffixes : pdf
> 
> and in the "Handled By" panel; select the "Plug In:" radio buton and
> "nppdf.so" from the drop-own list.
> 
> HTH
> FWIW, my RealPlayer plugin is in ~/.netscape/plugins and that works as
> well.
>


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