Acroread Problem

[fred smith]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 03:50:10PM -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> 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?

The difference is: the nppdf.so file is a PLUGIN, which causes Acrobat
to (appear to) open up in a browser window. Otherwise it would most 
likely open as a separate app (unless some other plugin such as mozplugger
or plugger is managing the plugin for you).

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