Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 16:12:04 -0500 From: "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@ds.net> To: Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Acrobat4 Plugin for Netscape Message-ID: <38AF0724.E2CD64E0@ds.net> References: <38AEFCD1.69F4018C@ds.net> <20000219204202.A336@marder-1>
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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. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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