On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Bob Miller wrote:
>I am trying to use Vanguard's web site, www.vanguard.com, using
>Mozilla. The site uses Javascript to check whether you have an
>Acrobat plugin in your web browser, and refuses to let you have copies
>of tax forms unless you have the plugin.
>
>Is it possible to have a PDF plugin for Mozilla? How?
Yep. I've got it running in mine, and it seems to work OK. You need a
relatively recent Mozilla, though...Mozilla didn't like Acrobat Reader
before about 0.9.5 or 0.9.6.
1. Go to www.adobe.com, click the "Get Acrobat Reader" button, and
download the Linux version (4.05). Hint: If you click the "Text-only Acrobat
Reader download page" link, it's slightly faster than using the forms and
menus, and you don't have to worry about them adding you to their spam
mailing lists.
2. Unpack and install it. (I put mine in /usr/local/Acrobat4.)
3. Go to your Mozilla plugins directory ("cd mozilla/plugins"), and make a
symbolic link to the Acrobat plugin
("ln -s /usr/local/Acrobat4/Browsers/intellinux/nppdf.so nppdf.so").
4. Restart Mozilla. It should work now.
- Neil Parker, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
