[17131] in Athena Bugs
Re: Acrobat plugin for Netscape broken on IRIX 6.3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Fri Sep 3 11:35:10 1999
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:35:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Larry Stone <lcs@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-infoagents@MIT.EDU
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I may have to look at your machine and try to figure out what's wrong,
Larry. This just doesn't match ...
First off, the path /mit/acro/nsplugins/ doesn't symlink through the
"current" directory at all ... I just looked at the acro locker and the
real path is /mit/acro/arch/@sys/nsplugins/, which is as it should be.
Second, although we prefer the helper to the plugin, that plugin directory
(/mit/acro/nsplugins/) is added to the plugin path by the 'netscape'
wrapper ... so Netscape finds the plugin properly, just doesn't use it by
default. You can check that - nppdf.so should be listed in the
'about:plugins' list, whether you use it or not.
Those display MY observed behavior. Now we have to figure out why yours is
behaving differently, and where.
Normally, to switch back to using the plugin, you go to
Preferences|Navigator|Applications, edit the "Portable Document Format"
handler, and switch from "Application" to "Plugin" - nppdf.so should
already be the default selection for the Plugin category.
Hmm, an afterthought ... We switched to using global mime.types/mailcap
files for the "official Athena mime types" a few weeks ago. If you still
have a local .mime.types/.mailcap pair, and they have obsolete PDF
settings, they may be interfering. Rename them to some null name, so they
don't get in the way of the globals, and try Netscape again.
-Todd
