Re: adobe and netscape 7

From: Joe Ryals (joe_ryals@csx.com)
Date: Thu Feb 05 2004 - 12:01:59 EST


I found the problem, with 4.x of netscape the readme file suggest using
arcroread with %s at the end, in 7 when I remove the %s at the end of
the command line to use to call acrobat, it works fine.

Joe Ryals

Joe Ryals wrote:

> I am trying out netscape 7 on my solaris 9 workstation and I cannot
> seem to get the adobe reader to work within netscape 7 as a helper
> application. I have been able to see an error message (one that
> usually disappears faster than I can read it) that states that it
> cannot open /tmp/{somefilename}.pdf. I still have the netscape 4.8
> installed on my system and it has no problems opening pdf files as a
> helper application. One thing I did see is that the 4.8 netscape
> version will open the pdf file as some strange name like
> M40ST489G3.pdf, but the netscape 7 version downloads the pdf file into
> /tmp with the real file name but it leaves the .pdf file in /tmp since
> the acroread application aborted.
>
> Anyone else have this problem and fixed it? I have downloaded xpdf and
> it works as a helper application with netscape 7 although not very
> good with some pdf files.
>
> Joe Ryals
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