On Thursday 31 March 2005 05:32 am, Q.H. Wang wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I also recently updated to Adobe Reader 7.0 and have enjoyed it for about > one week. I got no luck in my first try after installing it. It directly > went AReader 5.0 plugin I had previously installed. I went to the "plugins" > directory of firefox, removed the old (5.0) one and manually copied the 7.0 > one there. One more thing, I made a symbolic link of acroread of 7.0 to my > /usr/bin and removed the 50. acroread in my PATH. After that I got > everything running. My system is Mandrake the 10.0 and Firefox 1.0. HTH. > > I feel that AR 7.0 is much powerful than AR 5.0, but it's kinda slow to > launch. > > Bests, > > Q.H.
Finally got it to work, first followed the directions in this link: �http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#Acrobat which I found in the newsgroup, netscape.public.mozilla.unix, however this didn't work either, so, I then read further in the newsgroup and saw a reference to having the plug-in here /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, so copied it there, restarted mozilla, and, voila, .pdf files now load within mozilla. HTH Someone. Chris -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 19:11:14 up 17 days, 23:46, 1 user, load average: 0.88, 0.59, 0.53 Mandrake Linux 10.1 Official, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In the plot, people came to the land; the land loved them; they worked and struggled and had lots of children. There was a Frenchman who talked funny and a greenhorn from England who was a fancy-pants but when it came to the crunch he was all courage. Those novels would make you retch. -- Canadian novelist Robertson Davies, on the generic Canadian novel. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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