On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:27:18 -0800 Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
> How do you get firefox to open a PDF file instead of trying to
> download it?  The only plugins listed in about:plugins are
> s-shockwave-flash and futuresplash.  I do have acroread and gpdf
> installed.

Turn on USE-Flag "nsplugin" for app-text/acroread if you like Adobe
Reader. I use xpdf, because acroread takes ages to load. For this to
work I added xpdf as handler for the "application/pdf" MIME-type to the
list of helper applications. It should be somewhere in the preferences.

> Incidentally, which PDF viewer do you like best out of those in
> portage?

xpdf. I start acroread only when xpdf displays the file incorrectly.


Cheers,
Renat

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