Acroread Problem

Aaron Konstam akonstam at trinity.edu
Sat Mar 13 22:07:03 UTC 2004


On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 10:26:49AM -0500, Clint wrote:
> I'm having a problem with Acroread. I installed it following the 
> instructions found at artoo, and it has worked without any problems 
> until recently. I'm suspecting some update I've run is interfering with 
> it now. When I browse with Mozilla 1.6 to a pdf file online, Acroread 
> stops with the pop-up error message:
> 
> "There was an error opening this document. No such file or directory."
> 
> A blank Acroread application window is open in the bottom right-hand 
> corner of the browser.
> 
> I have checked that there is indeed a pdf file at the location, by using 
> wget. Then I can easily open it using either xpdf or Acroread locally. 
> So the problem seems to be with Mozilla and Acroread.
> 
> Is anyone experiencing similar symptoms?
> 
> If this is unresolvable, how I can I tell Mozilla to use xpdf as the 
> default pdf viewer?
> 
I don't know about the error buit to you can change to xpdf is the
preferences of Mozilla.
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