pdf files are not opening in Mozilla web browser

[Pete Nesbitt]

On May 7, 2004 10:59 am, Vivek Kumar wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 12:23, Pete Nesbitt wrote:
> > On May 7, 2004 07:43 am, Vivek Kumar wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Whenever I try to open any pdf file in the Mozilla browser, I see the
> > > message done at the bottom but no pdf file gets open in the browser. I
> > > can see the url and it says xxxxx.pdf there. Is there any setting which
> > > I can change to make this happen.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Vivek
> >
> > Just to confirm what is going on, you should d/l the pdf and see if
> > Acrobat works properly on a local file. You can open it with GostView,
> > but I don't know about5 a pluggin that way.
> >
> > Anyway, my point is that depending on your RH version (should always
> > state that in post) there may be a locale setting issue effecting
> > Acrobat, which you only see when opening into the app, not as a pluggin.
> > If you get an error like:
> > "Warning : charset "UTF-8" not supported,using "ISO8859-1"
> > then search this list (I use
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=redhat-list&r=1&w=2 ) for "acrobat
> > reader". It has been covered previously in this list.
>
> Hi all,
>
> I checked the plugins and nppdf.so is set for applicaton/pdf and is
> Enabled and yet I can't see any pdf file in my mozilla browser. Also I
> have Acrobat installed in /usr/local/Acrobat5.
>
> Any help will be highly appreciated..
>
> Thanks
>
> Vivek


You need to determine if it is the plugin or the application.
Can you open Acrobat (in a terminal window "/usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread" 
and from in the app open a pdf? If there are errors they will be displayed in 
the terminal window.
-- 
Pete Nesbitt, rhce