Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 20:41:26 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ok, i give up; how acroread in mozilla??? Message-ID: <20031110044126.GB90798@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20031110041704.GA90798@tao.thought.org> References: <20031108224501.GA55641@tao.thought.org> <20031110005623.GE553@dds.nl> <20031110031558.GA4372@moo.holy.cow> <20031110041704.GA90798@tao.thought.org>
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On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 08:17:04PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 10:15:58PM -0500, parv wrote: > > in message <20031110005623.GE553@dds.nl>, > > wrote Alex de Kruijff thusly... > > > > > > On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 02:45:01PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > > > > People, > > > > > > > > Setting up netscape to use realplayer and acroread took > > > > awhile but I finally got it. I've been using mozilla > > > > more and more, but still haven't figured out howto get > > > > it to successfully spawn acroread. > > > > > > The online FreeBSD handbook has a chapter about brouwsers. I think it > > > also contains how to do this. > > > > Acroread comes up as desired in mozilla 1.5b & netscape navigator > > 4.8 when... > > > > - in ~/.mailcap i have... > > > > application/pdf; acroread %s > > > > [[ ... ]] > > Maybe I should reinstall and *hope*. I'm running > linux-mozilla-devel-1.5RC2. > > In my ~/.mailcap is:: > > ###application/pdf;/usr/local/bin/acroread %s > /dev/null 2>&1 > application/pdf;/usr/local/bin/acroread %s > > The reasn for the full pathname above is that when I > first tried to read a .pdf file, the ERROR was that > l-m-d couldn't find aacroread. > Sorry for reposting atop my last post, but I just added the full pathname to the Helper Applications filetypes window. Now, no more errors, but acroread disappears almost instantly once the pdf file is saved to the Cache. I can use acroread to read the pdf file by-hand. Strange... . gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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