[17491] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.3.25: netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Fri Jan 28 15:04:34 2000
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 15:04:27 -0500 (EST)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: David M Collins <dmcollin@mit.edu>
cc: bugs@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200001281839.NAA14422@Barton-Sun.mit.edu>
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The acroread plugin is extremely unreliable on all Unix platforms; at the
moment, our only solution is to have people use the helper app approach
instead of the plugin.
In other words, in your Netscape preferences, your handler for the PDF
file type should not be nppdf.so; instead that setting should point to
an application. The path should be
/mit/acro/arch/@sys/bin/acroread %s
This is the setting used in the global mailcap and mime.types files, but
you may have local, private copies which have different settings. If you
need further details, send me an email.
-Todd Belton
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, David M Collins wrote:
> System name: Barton-Sun.mit.edu
> Type and version: Ultra-5_10 8.3.25 (with mkserv)
> Display type: ffb
>
> Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
> Window manager: unknown
>
> What were you trying to do?
> I'm the TA for 10.551 and when I've put together a web page, the pdf documents
> cause netscape to crash. Load the pdf files for 10.551 at
> http://web.mit.edu/10.551/www/handouts.html
>
> What's wrong:
> The version of netscape crashes when the acrobat plug-in loads. I've
> set up netscape with the acroread plug-in on HP-UX and I can load the view
> the files with no problem. It is a known bug documented by netscape.
>
> What should have happened:
> The pdf files should load without netscape crashing.
>
> Please describe any relevant documentation references:
>
>
