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From: "b.n." <brullonulla@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox PDF integration
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 00:34:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43FFA618.9090105@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10602231327m76e0324er1aab301aa9cccc53@mail.gmail.com>

Grant 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.

There is also a thing called mozplugger that allows to embed XPDF in a 
firefox window/tab, just like acroread.

I use it on the Debian box I have at work, I still haven't installed it 
in my Gentoo box at home.

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

kpdf, definitely.

m.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-24 23:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-23 21:27 [gentoo-user] Firefox PDF integration Grant
2006-02-23 21:40 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2006-02-23 22:04   ` Alan
2006-02-23 21:45 ` Renat Golubchyk
2006-02-24  3:30   ` Matthew Cline
2006-02-24  6:57     ` Joseph
2006-02-25 19:29       ` Grant
2006-02-24  6:14 ` Alexander Skwar
2006-02-24  6:17 ` Philip Webb
2006-02-25  0:34 ` b.n. [this message]
2006-02-25  0:29   ` david

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