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Kendor
Asked: 2011-01-21 12:41:43 +0800 CST

Troubles with Acrobat Reader within Firefox?

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I just built a new machine and installing Acrobat was last step in process. Am running Thinkpad X210 with 10.10 64-bit. I've always been able to reliably open PDFs inline from the web; however, when I launch a PDF, the main Firefox panel goes either white, completely black, or white with black diaganol streaks.

Perhaps this is video related... Here's what I have chipset wise

VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)

I'm certainly not wed to Acrobat, but I do want to have Firefox with inline PDFs from web.

10.10

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  1. Best Answer

    You could try to embed Evince, the default PDF reader, into Firefox. To do this install the mozplugger package. 

    sudo apt-get instal mozplugger

    You can then create a file in the '.mozilla' folder in your home folder called 'mozpluggerrc' and edit the contents to add the following:

    application/pdf: pdf: PDF file
application/x-pdf: pdf: PDF file
text/pdf: pdf: PDF file
text/x-pdf: pdf: PDF file
application/x-postscript: ps: PostScript file
application/postscript: ps: PostScript file
application/x-dvi: dvi: DVI file
    : evince $file

    Mozplugger Documentation

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