Hello,
I am having trouble configuring the Adobe Acrobat Reader as a helper-app to
the Netscape version (4.0.5) supplied with RedHat 5.1. I'm running on
an Intel P120 box. I'm using the latest Acrobat version on Adobe's Web
site- it's described as 3.0.1 but on unpacking it appears to be 3.0.
I have set application preferences to have MIME Type application/pdf,
suffix pdf, and handled by acroread %s (I also tried putting a full path
here, i.e. /usr/local/bin/acroread %s even though I made sure that acroread
is on my path when netscape is invoked but it made no difference). I verified
that netscape has added an acrobat entry to my ~/.mime.types; when I click
on a link to a pdf file, it appears to download but then nothing happens, at
the point where acroread should pop open with the pdf file- no error message,
just nothing happens.
I can launch acroread just fine from the shell prompt; all files in the
Acrobat tree are owned by root and are set to world read/execute.
I also tried to set it up as an inline plug-in, by putting the
netscape plug-in library nppdf.so in /usr/lib/netscape/plugins (tried
both putting a symlink to it and the actual file); when I try to set
the helper application as a plug-in, the selection button is
greyed-out and it won't let me make the selection.
I have had no problem at all using acroread with Netscape Communicator
4.0.4 that I downloaded directly from Netscape, both as an external
helper-app and as a plug-in. I looked at Adobe's Netscape launch
script for acroread and noted that there are a couple of special
environment variables they set there before invoking Netscape to
enable connection to the reader. I couldn't use the script directly in
4.0.5 because it seems that the directory structure Adobe's script
assumes (compatible with Netscape's 4.04 distribution) is
significantly different from the 4.0.5 setup in RedHat 5.1; however
fiddling around with the environment variables did not help either.
Any help would be gratefully appreciated!
Alex Prengel
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