On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Charles<debianl...@videotron.ca> wrote: > I have run across several websites lately which insist they cannot > download PDF files to you because you don't have Adobe Acrobat > installed. > I had a look in /usr/bin and there are symlinks named Acrobat, > Acroread, Adobe Reader, and Adobe Reader 8.1.3. All except Acroread > point to /usr/bin/evince. > How can I "fool" these websites (including > the Quebec government site) into thinking Adobe is on my machine?
The sites are probably looking for a suitable plugin. If you're lucky, they're not specifically looking for Adobe's plugin. In that case, you might be able to install mozplugger and tell it to handle PDF with a custom script that just writes the file to /tmp. No, I don't have such a script, and I haven't verified that this will work. You could also point mozplugger to evince, which might even be in the default configuration. -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com http://36pints.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
