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Gabriele Nicolardi
Asked: 2020-07-30 07:48:32 +0800 CST

Firefox: open .pdf files with acrordrdc (installed by snap)

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I'm trying to open .pdf files in Firefox with acrordrdc installed via snap. I tried:

  1. Since acrordrdc file.pdf works I tried using a "wrapper" file:

    #!/bin/bash
acrordrdc $1

  2. Editing the acrordrdc.desktop (see Changing default app for PDF).

In the first case (the wrapper solution) acrordrdc opens with an empty window. No file is showed.

In the second case I can select "Acrobat Reader DC" in Firefox but nothing happens when the files is downloaded. Acrobat is not opened.

Edit. After the N0rbert answer I tried to modify my wrapper:

#!/bin/bash
cp $i ~/Downloads/renamed.pdf
acrordrdc ~/Downloads/renamed.pdf

and now it works. Now I need to find a way to remove the file(s) after I read it (them).

I don't understand why I need to rename it. If I have:

#!/bin/bash
cp $i ~/Downloads/$1
acrordrdc ~/Downloads/$1

it doesn't work. The file is copied but not opened.

firefox adobe-acrobat 20.04

2 Answers

  1. After some debugging in Ubuntu MATE 20.04 LTS I discovered that Firefox copies PDF file of interest to the /tmp folder.

    The /tmp folder can't be accessed by this snapped application. Wrapper script does not help either. So it is impossible to integrate /snap/bin/acrordrdc with Firefox.

    I'll recommend to remove snapped version of Adobe Acrobat with

    snap remove acrordrdc

    and install native pretty old deb-based version of Adobe Reader 9.5.5 by:

    cd ~/Downloads
wget ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.5.5/enu/AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i386linux_enu.deb
sudo apt-get install ./AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i386linux_enu.deb
sudo apt-get install libxml2:i386 gtk2-engines-murrine:i386 gtk2-engines-pixbuf:i386 libcanberra-gtk-module:i386 libatk-bridge2.0-0:i386 libatk-adaptor:i386

    and then choose it in the Firefox settings.

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  2. I finally managed to get a wrapper to work. It has to do these steps:

    1. If no argument given, call acrordrdc and exit.

    2. If the target file (“$1”) is not located below /home, copy it to a location in your home directory and change the target name.

    3. Convert the target name to DOS (eg. Z:\home\msohnius\tmp\file.pdf).

    4. Call acrordrdc with this new argument.

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