Re: Acrobat as a helper/plugin

1999-03-01 Thread Christian van Enckevort
> You may try to edit the `acroread' executable by adding > > export -n LD_PRELOAD > > to the top. This should make the Acrobat work as helper. Thank you, that did the trick. Acrobat now seems to work both as a helper and as a plugin (I have not done any stress testing). Is the maintainer of the

Re: Acrobat as a helper/plugin

1999-02-28 Thread Patrik Hagglund
> But certainly it should work as a helper application (if not as > a plugin). Yes, if it works on the command line I think it should work as an helper application. Maybe you can do some debugging by specifying `strace acroread %s 2> acroread.log' as your application in netscape. If you don't find

Re: Acrobat as a helper/plugin

1999-02-28 Thread Jozef Skvarcek
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Christian van Enckevort wrote: > I tried your suggestion of adding /usr/lib/libc5-compat to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, > but it did not help. Note also that I do not experience any problems with > acroread when I start it independently (not from within netscape). > You may try to edit

Re: Acrobat as a helper/plugin

1999-02-28 Thread Christian van Enckevort
Hi Patrik, I tried your suggestion of adding /usr/lib/libc5-compat to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but it did not help. Note also that I do not experience any problems with acroread when I start it independently (not from within netscape). I do use a libc6 version of netscape (version 4.07 from slink), so I

Re: Acrobat as a helper/plugin

1999-02-28 Thread Patrik Hagglund
I had also problems with acroread (the rendered image looked scrambled), but never investigated it futher. But a quick look in the bug tracking system (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/) gave me a bug report with a workaround added that might help: > Package: acroread > Version: 3.02-0.1 > > This is wh

Acrobat as a helper/plugin

1999-02-28 Thread Christian van Enckevort
Hi, I am trying to get acroread and netscape to work together. It should be possible to use acroread as a plugin (it is listed as a plugin for PDF in netscape). However, if I select that plugin (nppdf.so, which apparently should run acroread), netscape crashes when I try to view a PDF-file. In fac