[17129] in Athena Bugs
Acrobat plugin for Netscape broken on IRIX 6.3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Stone)
Thu Sep 2 19:45:38 1999
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 99 19:45:29 EDT
From: Larry Stone <lcs@MIT.EDU>
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On an Athena 8.2, IRIX 6.3 system, Netscape (even with a reinstalled,
brand-new .netscape directory in my homedir) does not offer the Adobe
Acrobat Reader plugin any more. "It used to work", as they say, only
a couple weeks ago. I didn't notice when it broke.
The link /mit/acro/nsplugins is broken now. That may have something to
do with it pointing to the "current" link in /mit/acro, which is now
version 4, which doesn't exist for anything but IRIX 6.5. The older
arch links should be fixed to point to Acrobat 3.
The plugin-list.orig file in my *old* .netscape dir had the entry:
/mit/acro/nsplugins/nppdf.so 847320718 application/pdf: pdf:Portable Document
Format;
so could that be made to work once again? Please let me know how to
make it a viable alternative in my netscape "Preferences" menu again.
thanks,
-- Larry
