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From: Keith Lee on 24 Oct 2007 20:31
All:
I have xpdf and xpdf-common installed for Mandriva Linux 2008 and
Firefox 2.0.0.6; but, there doesn't seem to be an xpdf plugin for firefox.
Does anyone know where it is and how I can download it? Thank you.

Keith Lee
From: Bit Twister on 24 Oct 2007 21:09
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:31:36 -0500, Keith Lee wrote:
> All:
> I have xpdf and xpdf-common installed for Mandriva Linux 2008 and
> Firefox 2.0.0.6; but, there doesn't seem to be an xpdf plugin for firefox.
> Does anyone know where it is and how I can download it? Thank you.

Hmmm,

$ cat /etc/release
Mandriva Linux release 2008.0 (Official) for i586

I did a
locate pdf | grep doc

and cut/pasted a pdf document
/usr/share/doc/wordnet/pdf/wnpkgs.7.pdf
into firefox and was able to view the pdf document.

Then did a
ps aux | grep /wnpkgs.7.pdf
and found
/usr/bin/evince /usr/share/doc/wordnet/pdf/wnpkgs.7.pdf

Snippet from man evince

DESCRIPTION
evince

Evince is a document viewer capable of displaying multiple and
single page document formats like PDF and Postscript. For
more general information about Evince please
visit our website at http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/


From: Reinout van Schouwen on 25 Oct 2007 06:03
Op donderdag 25-10-2007 om 01:09 uur [tijdzone +0000], schreef Bit
Twister:

> DESCRIPTION
> evince

Yeah, Evince is a great PDF viewer. But if I'm not mistaken, the OP was
asking for a mozilla plugin. For some incomprehensable reason, some
people prefer to view PDFs inside the browser instead of a dedicated
interface.

I don't think an evince mozilla plugin exists yet, but the acrobat
reader stuff from non-free comes with a plugin.

regards,

--
Reinout van Schouwen
http://vanschouwen.info/

From: Curt on 25 Oct 2007 10:30
On 2007-10-25, Reinout van Schouwen <reinout(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Op donderdag 25-10-2007 om 01:09 uur [tijdzone +0000], schreef Bit
> Twister:
>
>> DESCRIPTION
>> evince
>
> Yeah, Evince is a great PDF viewer. But if I'm not mistaken, the OP was
> asking for a mozilla plugin. For some incomprehensable reason, some
> people prefer to view PDFs inside the browser instead of a dedicated
> interface.

I found Bit's response baffling. That's one of problems with "stock"
responses--sometimes they apply to some general case which is not at all
the specific one at hand.

> I don't think an evince mozilla plugin exists yet, but the acrobat
> reader stuff from non-free comes with a plugin.

When I click on a pdf in firefox, it opens in xpdf. It's not a
"plugin"; I suppose they call that a "file association." At any rate,
this is the behavior I want. So you're saying there exists a plugin
that when you click on a pdf, the pdf's content appears embedded in the
browser?
From: Bit Twister on 25 Oct 2007 11:38
On 25 Oct 2007 14:30:10 GMT, Curt wrote:
>
> I found Bit's response baffling. That's one of problems with "stock"
> responses--sometimes they apply to some general case which is not at all
> the specific one at hand.

General questions get general answers or SWAGS.
I looked at "release 2008" and installed xpdf and wondered what the
problem realy was.

With release 2008, evince replaced xpdf, so I assumed user did not
have evince installed.

>
> When I click on a pdf in firefox, it opens in xpdf. It's not a
> "plugin"; I suppose they call that a "file association." At any rate,
> this is the behavior I want.

Then you modify the "Document Viewer" file association to call the app
you want executed.
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