Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 09:20:20 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@alaskaparadise.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Rick Voland <rpvoland@spamcop.net> Subject: Re: acroread7 as plugin for Firefox Message-ID: <200605230920.22790.beech@alaskaparadise.com> In-Reply-To: <44727083.3040500@spamcop.net> References: <44727083.3040500@spamcop.net>
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--nextPart5411341.N2ps7p23su Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 22 May 2006 18:16, Rick Voland wrote: > Is the acroread7 plugin for Firefox currently functional? I can run > acroread as a stand-alone program, but not as a plugin. If I check > "about:plugins" acroread is recognized as a plugin. > > I'm asking here because the Linux Base is under significant development, > so I'm wondering whether this problem is known and being postponed until > the Linux Base is more stable. > > The symptom is that I get "running helper", but little disk activity > (program not loaded). I created a symbolic link: > ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/acroread /usr/local/bin/acroread7 > and then I get much longer disk activity, enough that I see the acroread > program icon change, indicating it has loaded, but I still don't see the > associated PDF content in my browser or anywhere else. > > FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0 with SMP kernel > acroread7-7.0.1,1 > acroreadwrapper-0.0.20060221 > linuxpluginwrapper-20051113_2 (with its /etc/libmap.conf file) > firefox-1.5.0.3,1 > plugger-5.1.3_1 > plugger-plugins-hubbe-5.0_8 > > I've read the configuration comments by Beech Rintoul around December. > > Thanks for any suggestions. I'm having the same problem with one of my client's 6-STABLE boxes.=20 Unfortunately I can't really do much testing as I'm now running -CURRENT an= d=20 linuxpluginwrapper isn't up to speed. Acroread stopped working on the 6.x b= ox=20 about a month ago, and has the same symptoms as you describe. I'll try and= =20 get in after hours in the next couple of days and see if I can get this=20 working. I'll let you know what I find. Beech =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - beech@alaskaparadise.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Alaska Paradise \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://www.alaskaparadise.com =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart5411341.N2ps7p23su Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEc0RWp5D0B1NlT4URAi0MAJ4lVp2H5RS4RbPMELVqFyvIPdybswCeJIU0 2IkSfl0thn4RK8FcGqySFW4= =4J2r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5411341.N2ps7p23su--
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