Acroread Problem

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, John Thompson wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 14:52:53 -0600
> Fritz Whittington <f.whittington at att.net> wrote:
>
> > If you really liked Acroread, you can re-install it.  As long as you
> > remove the plug-in, Mozilla will honor your choice of an external
> > "helper" app, like xpdf.  The problem is, that IF there's a plugin
> > installed that can handle a file, then Mozilla will happily ignore
> > your attempts to set up a helper app to handle it.  You might even
> > discover that Acroread will work as an external helper app.  But at
> > least then you can have your choice.
>
> Firefox must be different,then.  I completely deleted nppdf.so from my
> system and it still opens pdf files in acroread instead of xpdf.

Do you have mozplugger installed?

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		Matthew Saltzman

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