Acroread Problem

[John Thompson]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:19:07 -0500
fred smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:

> > > 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).

Yes, I realize that, but even without nppdf.so anywhere on my system FireFox was still opening acroread in the browser window, not as a separate app.

In any case, I solved the problem by uninstalling the acroread rpm and installed acroread for the tarball on Abode's download site.  Now I can run acroread for those situations where it is useful and still have FireFox use xpdf in the browser, where it is so much faster to load. And doesn't seem to loose its settings the way acroread did.  It seemed every time acroread opened, I'd end up changing things back the way I wanted.  

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-John (JohnThompson at new.rr.com)