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    RESOLVED: Where do I find Adobe (or any other) pdf plugin for Firefox?

    The resolution (using Okular) is explained in my last entry.
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    It seems to change all the time. I tried the method at

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=604951

    but it can't find either acroread-plugins or acroread-escript.

    Also, what to do for Acroread on 64-bit Kubuntu?
    'I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.' Mark Twain

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    Re: Where do I find Adobe (or any other) pdf plugin for Firefox?

    On principle, I wouldn't follow instructions from any 3 year old threads unless I was very sure it still applied.

    What is it you're trying to accomplish, view on-line pdfs in a browser window?


    http://kb.mozillazine.org/Adobe_Reader

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      #3
      Re: Where do I find Adobe (or any other) pdf plugin for Firefox?

      Or PDF Download 3.0.0.1
      Windows no longer obstructs my view.
      Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
      "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes

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        #4
        Re: Where do I find Adobe (or any other) pdf plugin for Firefox?

        Yes, I want to view on-line pdf files in a browser window -- or something else -- but without being obliged to download them to disk and then read them with acroread. If there's a way to say "open the on-line pdf file in a separate application window", that's ok too.

        I realized the page was too old,but was not sure what else to do. I have installed acroread from the Adobe site. But it doesn't make a plugin.

        Thanks for the suggestions. However, I cannot find anywhere on the pdfdownload pages where they say it works for Linux or for 64bits. Does it?

        As for the Mozillazine article, it leads to a number of things, like 32 vs 64 bits, or nspluginwrapper. Is that what you are suggesting?
        'I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.' Mark Twain

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          #5
          Re: Where do I find Adobe (or any other) pdf plugin for Firefox?

          Can't speak for 64-bit Kubuntu - I have a 32-bit CPU - but I do have FireFox installed here (version 3.6.10) and clicking on a .pdf file/link results in FF asking me "What should Firefox do with this file?" with Open with checked by default, and Okular being the default application. Works perfectly.
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          Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
          "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes

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            #6
            Re: Where do I find Adobe (or any other) pdf plugin for Firefox?

            Okular works perfectly for me - 64bit

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              #7
              Re: Where do I find Adobe (or any other) pdf plugin for Firefox?

              Originally posted by oshunluvr
              Okular works perfectly for me - 64bit
              I'd try it, but I can't get there. Don't remember just how I got to this state, but now, if I click on a pdf file in Firefox, the result is difficult to describe. I just get a mostly blank screen with a few seemingly random bunches of characters scattered around. In brief, it does not work.

              If I check aboutlugins, I see that I have Adobe Reader 8.0 and Adobe Reader 9.3!

              I have now removed the acroread package and now Adobe Reader 9.3 is gone, but .8.0 is still there and it still does not work.

              How do I get myself into such a mess? Sigh.
              'I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.' Mark Twain

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                #8
                Re: Where do I find Adobe (or any other) pdf plugin for Firefox?

                Eureka! I found that in Edit>Preferences>Applications you can choose to use Okular to open a pdf file. Works great, as you said.

                Thanks a lot, again.
                'I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.' Mark Twain

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                  #9
                  Re: Where do I find Adobe (or any other) pdf plugin for Firefox?

                  Originally posted by oshunluvr
                  Okular works perfectly for me - 64bit
                  Okular 64-bit works perfectly fine for me as well.
                  Shinda Sekai Sensen<br /><br />Kubuntu Maverick RC x64 w/ Kde 4.5.2 (main)<br />Kubuntu 10.04 x64 w/ Kde 4.5.1 to be wiped, no point in keeping it any longer

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