From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 16 10:18:38 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4DB616A494 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:18:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A158613C441 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:18:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 12223 invoked from network); 16 Jul 2007 05:18:38 -0500 Received: from 203-158-59-146.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO localhost) (203.158.59.146) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 16 Jul 2007 05:18:37 -0500 Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:18:34 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome To: Rick Voland Message-ID: <20070716201834.4b8c8242@localhost> In-Reply-To: <469AAD90.4010203@spamcop.net> References: <469AAD90.4010203@spamcop.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.10.0 (GTK+ 2.10.13; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: acroread plugin in Firefox X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:18:38 -0000 On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:28:16 -0500 Rick Voland wrote: > I am unable to get PDF documents to open properly in Firefox since I > updated to xorg 7.2 and linux_base-fc-4_10. Rick, does Acrobat Reader work ok standalone? what does actually happen when you click on a link to a .pdf ? have you got any other application mapped to it? have you got the link : $ ls -l /usr [...] lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10 May 21 14:30 X11R6 -> /usr/local in place? have you registered the acroread plugin with nspluginwrapper ? FWIW,it works fine here... > > 1) It was working before these updates. > > 2) Now, a PDF document tries to open in a Firefox webpage. gv opens > fine, but is unable to parse the PDF, leaving a completely blank page > with a link on the left for each page, but each page is blank. > > 3) I'm using: > FreeBSD-6.2-RELEASE-p5 > firefox-2.0.0.4,1 > acroread7-7.0.9_2,1 > > 4) I made links in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins to the plugins (new > locations), and pointed /usr/local/lib/browser_linux_plugins and > /usr/local/lib/linux-mozilla to this main folder. > > 5) It was working fine with linuxpluginwrapper before the update, but > not after the update. So, I uninstalled linuxpluginwrapper and replaced > it with nspluginwrapper. > > 6) Firefox writes some complaints to the console about acroread7, > linuxflash7, and realplayer, but linuxflash7 and realplayer both work > fine now. > > 7) The acroread plugin appears in the list when I type "about:plugins" > into firefox. > > 8) The acroread plugin works properly if I move npplugger.so to > npplugger.so.off. So, maybe this issue has to do with plugger. I use > the default /usr/local/etc/pluggerrc-5.1.3. > > 9) There were no improvements when I added a link acroread7 -> acroread > , nor when I changed pluggerrc-5.1.3 to indicate acroread instead of > acroread7 . > > 10) All ports are up to date as of July 14. > > > > Thanks for any suggestions. > > ------ > > rpvoland@spamcop.net > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" _________________________ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome "At times, to be silent is to lie." Miguel de Unamuno I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned.