[NTLUG:Discuss] Acrobat Reader & Netscape

[Gregory A. Edwards]

I did the application setup and that is what returns the segment violation
when acrobat reader runs.  My guess is that the library issue is what's
biting me in the butt here.  What I have setup now that works around the
problem is all pdf files download to disk and then I can run reader on the
downloaded file.  If it's a keeper I download to my home area and if I don't
plan on keeping it download to /tmp.  Is the "netscape-mdk4.61-stable" a
hack of netscape or the real deal compiled against libc?  I think I want to
go ahead and get the current netscape 4.7(?) release and just wait for Adobe
to get a glibc out for reader.

Greg E


> From: Kyle_Davenport at compusa.com
> Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 09:40:51 -0600
> 
> Your Netscape is probably preloading incompatible libraries.   I did get the
> nppdf.so plugin working with netscape-mdk4.61-stable (something like that) on
> rpmfind.net.
> 
> If you just want a helper, xpdf works fine.
> 
> 
> MadHat <madhat at unspecific.com> on 11/04/99 08:42:55 AM
> 
>
> To:   discuss at ntlug.org
> cc:    (bcc: Kyle Davenport/Is/Corporate/CompUSA)
> Subject:  Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Acrobat Reader & Netscape
> 
> 
> 
> "Gregory A. Edwards" wrote:
> >
> > I downloaded and installed Acroread 4.0 and can't get it to run as a
> > helper in Netscape 4.07.  Has anyone gotten this to work?  I can run
> > acroread from the command line without a hitch but from netscape I get
> > a caught seg violation popup from acroread.  The install readme had
> > mention that acroread was libc.so.5 based but I thought netscape
> > 4.07 was also libc5?  This is the netscape 4.07 on the RH5.2 CD.
> 
> go to Edit|Preferences, choose Navigator|Applications, then choose New
> 
> Here are the field values I use...
> Description: Adobe
> MIME TYpe: application/pdf
> Sufixes: pdf
> 
> Then below that choose application and use
> /usr/local/bin/adobe_reader %s
> 
> This will launch the adober reader with the file you chick on.
> 
> --
> MadHat