[18306] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.4.12: Athena 8.4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Mon Sep 18 15:32:02 2000
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 15:31:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@mit.edu>
cc: bugs@mit.edu
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On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Roger A. Roach wrote:
> 4. When I invoke Netscape, I get:
> No plugin nppdf.so. Reverting to save-to-disk for type application/pdf.
> Is this something I need to change?
It appears that Netscape can't find the Acrobat plugin anymore. This isn't
just you; it's a recent development from sometime after we switched to
4.75 and I'm trying to find out why. The plugin is in the correct place
and *should* be visible.
I recommend that you switch to using the standalone 'acroread' program as
the pdf handler anyway; it's more stable.
To do this, in netscape go to Preferences|Navigator|Applications, select
the "Portable Document Format" handler from the list, and edit it. Select
the "Application" radio button and provide this path:
/mit/acro/arch/@sys/bin/acroread %s
-Todd
