[gentoo-user] Acroread

[gentoo-user] Acroread

[Nilesh Govindrajan]

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Is it officially supported now? Or has been discontinued like flash?

I'm mainly interested in the NPAPI plug in since it would allow me to use
the same thing in Firefox and chromium.

Are there any other good PDF readers with NPAPI? Don't suggest binary
chrome.

--
Nilesh Govindrajan
http://nileshgr.com

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[gentoo-user] Re: Acroread

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 17/02/13 09:52, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
> Is it officially supported now? Or has been discontinued like flash?
>
> I'm mainly interested in the NPAPI plug in since it would allow me to
> use the same thing in Firefox and chromium.
>
> Are there any other good PDF readers with NPAPI? Don't suggest binary
> chrome.

You can use the Chrome PDF plugin in Chromium too.  Just symlink it into 
chromium's plugin directory:

   ln -s /opt/google/chrome/libpdf.so /usr/lib/chromium-browser/

And you can also use Chrome's PPAPI Flash plugin in Chromium (which is 
supported, unlike the NPAPI Flash plugin.)  In your 
/etc/chromium/default file, put this in it:

# Options to pass to chromium.
CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--ppapi-flash-path=/opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so"

Simply keep google-chrome emerged.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Acroread

[Nilesh Govindrajan]

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That's what I did. But I tend to switch browsers too often (chromium and
Firefox).
Firefox has a pdf.js addon, doesn't work reliably many times.

(sorry for top post, mobile).

--
Nilesh Govindrajan
http://nileshgr.com
On Feb 17, 2013 1:49 PM, "Nikos Chantziaras" <realnc@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 17/02/13 09:52, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
>
>> Is it officially supported now? Or has been discontinued like flash?
>>
>> I'm mainly interested in the NPAPI plug in since it would allow me to
>> use the same thing in Firefox and chromium.
>>
>> Are there any other good PDF readers with NPAPI? Don't suggest binary
>> chrome.
>>
>
> You can use the Chrome PDF plugin in Chromium too.  Just symlink it into
> chromium's plugin directory:
>
>   ln -s /opt/google/chrome/libpdf.so /usr/lib/chromium-browser/
>
> And you can also use Chrome's PPAPI Flash plugin in Chromium (which is
> supported, unlike the NPAPI Flash plugin.)  In your /etc/chromium/default
> file, put this in it:
>
> # Options to pass to chromium.
> CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--ppapi-flash-**path=/opt/google/chrome/**
> PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.**so"
>
> Simply keep google-chrome emerged.
>
>
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Acroread

[Yohan Pereira]

On 17/02/13 at 02:44pm, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
> That's what I did. But I tend to switch browsers too often (chromium and
> Firefox).
> Firefox has a pdf.js addon, doesn't work reliably many times.

If you use KDE try this. You can then use okular(among other things) 
in your browsers. 

 www-plugins/kpartsplugin
 http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~fischer/kpartsplugin/
 Description:         Plugin using KDE's KParts technology to embed file 
 viewers into non-KDE browsers

-- 

- Yohan Pereira

The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference
between a mermaid and a seal.
                -- Mark Twain

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Acroread

[Nilesh Govindrajan]

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That sounds interesting. Will try it out. Thanks.

But nobody replied if Adobe still supports acroread?

--
Nilesh Govindrajan
http://nileshgr.com
On Feb 17, 2013 3:04 PM, "Yohan Pereira" <yohan.pereira@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 17/02/13 at 02:44pm, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
> > That's what I did. But I tend to switch browsers too often (chromium and
> > Firefox).
> > Firefox has a pdf.js addon, doesn't work reliably many times.
>
> If you use KDE try this. You can then use okular(among other things)
> in your browsers.
>
>  www-plugins/kpartsplugin
>  http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~fischer/kpartsplugin/
>  Description:         Plugin using KDE's KParts technology to embed file
>  viewers into non-KDE browsers
>
> --
>
> - Yohan Pereira
>
> The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference
> between a mermaid and a seal.
>                 -- Mark Twain
>
>

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[gentoo-user] Re: Acroread

[Nuno Silva]

On 2013-02-17, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
> On Feb 17, 2013 3:04 PM, "Yohan Pereira" <yohan.pereira@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 17/02/13 at 02:44pm, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
>> > That's what I did. But I tend to switch browsers too often (chromium and
>> > Firefox).
>> > Firefox has a pdf.js addon, doesn't work reliably many times.
>>
>> If you use KDE try this. You can then use okular(among other things)
>> in your browsers.
>>
>>  www-plugins/kpartsplugin
>>  http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~fischer/kpartsplugin/
>>  Description:         Plugin using KDE's KParts technology to embed file
>>  viewers into non-KDE browsers
>
> That sounds interesting. Will try it out. Thanks.
>
> But nobody replied if Adobe still supports acroread?

AFAIK there was no annoucement regarding end of life for acroread, so I
don't see any reason to expect otherwise.

Flash is a separate thing.

But keep in mind that Adobe Acrobat Reader is one of the worst, most
bloated and most heavy PDF viewers out there. The only thing it may be
worthy for is some kind of bleeding edge PDF feature libpoppler and the
like don't have yet.

Also, I actually had to try running it recently. I was trying to print a
document with annotations -- spoiler: it didn't work, not even with
acroread, closest I got was generating a postscript file using acroread
in the commandline after manually hacking the acroread settings to
enable annotation printing, and even then part of the annotations don't
show up or are covered, and there's no mapping between annotations and
their icons. But the interface was *really* slow, almost unusable. I
wonder why. I possibly overlooked something.

-- 
Nuno Silva (aka njsg)
http://njsg.sdf-eu.org/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Acroread

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

Am 17.02.2013 13:05, schrieb (Nuno Silva):
> On 2013-02-17, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
>> On Feb 17, 2013 3:04 PM, "Yohan Pereira" <yohan.pereira@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 17/02/13 at 02:44pm, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
>>>> That's what I did. But I tend to switch browsers too often (chromium and
>>>> Firefox).
>>>> Firefox has a pdf.js addon, doesn't work reliably many times.
>>> If you use KDE try this. You can then use okular(among other things)
>>> in your browsers.
>>>
>>>  www-plugins/kpartsplugin
>>>  http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~fischer/kpartsplugin/
>>>  Description:         Plugin using KDE's KParts technology to embed file
>>>  viewers into non-KDE browsers
>> That sounds interesting. Will try it out. Thanks.
>>
>> But nobody replied if Adobe still supports acroread?
> AFAIK there was no annoucement regarding end of life for acroread, so I
> don't see any reason to expect otherwise.
>
> Flash is a separate thing.
>
> But keep in mind that Adobe Acrobat Reader is one of the worst, most
> bloated and most heavy PDF viewers out there. The only thing it may be
> worthy for is some kind of bleeding edge PDF feature libpoppler and the
> like don't have yet.
>
> Also, I actually had to try running it recently. I was trying to print a
> document with annotations -- spoiler: it didn't work, not even with
> acroread, closest I got was generating a postscript file using acroread
> in the commandline after manually hacking the acroread settings to
> enable annotation printing, and even then part of the annotations don't
> show up or are covered, and there's no mapping between annotations and
> their icons. But the interface was *really* slow, almost unusable. I
> wonder why. I possibly overlooked something.
>
biddings need digitally signed pdfs. Easy to create with acroread. Not
so easy with anything else.
And that 'feature' is not arcane nor seldomly used.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Acroread

[Nilesh Govindrajan]

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt> wrote:
> On 2013-02-17, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
>> On Feb 17, 2013 3:04 PM, "Yohan Pereira" <yohan.pereira@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 17/02/13 at 02:44pm, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
>>> > That's what I did. But I tend to switch browsers too often (chromium and
>>> > Firefox).
>>> > Firefox has a pdf.js addon, doesn't work reliably many times.
>>>
>>> If you use KDE try this. You can then use okular(among other things)
>>> in your browsers.
>>>
>>>  www-plugins/kpartsplugin
>>>  http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~fischer/kpartsplugin/
>>>  Description:         Plugin using KDE's KParts technology to embed file
>>>  viewers into non-KDE browsers
>>
>> That sounds interesting. Will try it out. Thanks.
>>
>> But nobody replied if Adobe still supports acroread?
>
> AFAIK there was no annoucement regarding end of life for acroread, so I
> don't see any reason to expect otherwise.
>
> Flash is a separate thing.
>
> But keep in mind that Adobe Acrobat Reader is one of the worst, most
> bloated and most heavy PDF viewers out there. The only thing it may be
> worthy for is some kind of bleeding edge PDF feature libpoppler and the
> like don't have yet.
>
> Also, I actually had to try running it recently. I was trying to print a
> document with annotations -- spoiler: it didn't work, not even with
> acroread, closest I got was generating a postscript file using acroread
> in the commandline after manually hacking the acroread settings to
> enable annotation printing, and even then part of the annotations don't
> show up or are covered, and there's no mapping between annotations and
> their icons. But the interface was *really* slow, almost unusable. I
> wonder why. I possibly overlooked something.
>
> --
> Nuno Silva (aka njsg)
> http://njsg.sdf-eu.org/
>

Installed acroread with nsplugin use flag. It didn't add to
/usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins. Symlinked manually.
Still doesn't show up, neither in chromium nor in firefox.

So my primary purpose is defeated lol.

Going to try kparts now :-)

--
Nilesh Govindrajan
http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Acroread

[Nilesh Govindrajan]

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan <me@nileshgr.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt> wrote:
>> On 2013-02-17, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
>>> On Feb 17, 2013 3:04 PM, "Yohan Pereira" <yohan.pereira@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 17/02/13 at 02:44pm, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
>>>> > That's what I did. But I tend to switch browsers too often (chromium and
>>>> > Firefox).
>>>> > Firefox has a pdf.js addon, doesn't work reliably many times.
>>>>
>>>> If you use KDE try this. You can then use okular(among other things)
>>>> in your browsers.
>>>>
>>>>  www-plugins/kpartsplugin
>>>>  http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~fischer/kpartsplugin/
>>>>  Description:         Plugin using KDE's KParts technology to embed file
>>>>  viewers into non-KDE browsers
>>>
>>> That sounds interesting. Will try it out. Thanks.
>>>
>>> But nobody replied if Adobe still supports acroread?
>>
>> AFAIK there was no annoucement regarding end of life for acroread, so I
>> don't see any reason to expect otherwise.
>>
>> Flash is a separate thing.
>>
>> But keep in mind that Adobe Acrobat Reader is one of the worst, most
>> bloated and most heavy PDF viewers out there. The only thing it may be
>> worthy for is some kind of bleeding edge PDF feature libpoppler and the
>> like don't have yet.
>>
>> Also, I actually had to try running it recently. I was trying to print a
>> document with annotations -- spoiler: it didn't work, not even with
>> acroread, closest I got was generating a postscript file using acroread
>> in the commandline after manually hacking the acroread settings to
>> enable annotation printing, and even then part of the annotations don't
>> show up or are covered, and there's no mapping between annotations and
>> their icons. But the interface was *really* slow, almost unusable. I
>> wonder why. I possibly overlooked something.
>>
>> --
>> Nuno Silva (aka njsg)
>> http://njsg.sdf-eu.org/
>>
>
> Installed acroread with nsplugin use flag. It didn't add to
> /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins. Symlinked manually.
> Still doesn't show up, neither in chromium nor in firefox.
>
> So my primary purpose is defeated lol.
>
> Going to try kparts now :-)
>
> --
> Nilesh Govindrajan
> http://nileshgr.com

kpartsplugin is perfect. Thanks a ton!

--
Nilesh Govindrajan
http://nileshgr.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Acroread

[»Q«]

On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:06:09 +0530
Yohan Pereira <yohan.pereira@gmail.com> wrote:

> If you use KDE try this. You can then use okular(among other things) 
> in your browsers. 
> 
>  www-plugins/kpartsplugin
>  http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~fischer/kpartsplugin/
>  Description:         Plugin using KDE's KParts technology to embed
> file viewers into non-KDE browsers

Thanks very much for pointing to this!

For other people trying it for the first time, note that it adds a
module in the KDE's System Settings to select which file types should be
handled by the plugin.  (After some searching about how to configure
it, I found this in the changelog.)