adobe 7 probs

[winblowz]

hi gang,

i am having a problem at first i thought with AdobeReader 7.0 brwoser plugin, but now i see i actually can't even run AdobeReader on it's own in FC6.

when i first installed Adobe i selected the automatic plugin option which didn't work. so i then went for the manual setup & chose global. again i don't believe that worked so i chose to install the plugin for mozilla & after that when i tried to install the plugin for firefox i got the error that the plugin already appears as though it has been installed. so kewl i thought the plugin is seen from mozilla plugin folder.

whenever i try to open a pdf file in firefox now the browser will hang up not responding with a grey blank window.

i checked the fedora FAQ & i didn't install running... yum localinstall AdobeReader* ... i used the adobe INSTALL* exe in the folder created when i untar/zipped the download file. i also removed the nppdf.so from ~/.mozilla/plugins folder (created with Adobe manual plugin installer i assume) & created a symlink in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.

done... but i get the same problem. so i thought i would run just AdobeReader on it's own & make sure it opens pdfs ok... /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread i get the error...

/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading shared libraries: libBIB.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

so i do a search for the file... [root@/usr/local/src]$ find /usr/ -name libBIB.so which returns...

/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/intellinux/lib/libBIB.so

so the file is there & now i am not sure what to try next.

i'm using AdobeReader_enu-7.0.8-1.i386.tar.gz & everything seems to install fine without error except with regards to the plugin install mentioned earlier.

any ideas or help would be appreciated.

[parish]

Doesn't really address your specific question about adobereader, but I've configured firefox to use evince to display pdf files and have no complaints. It does open a separate window to display them, which I prefer, so I haven't looked into changing it.

Daniel

[winblowz]

It does open a separate window to display them

actually the whole reason for installing Adobe was so I could install the plugin so pdf files will be embedded in the browser. i don't really like viewing pdfs from the web in a separate app.

other than that i wouldn't probably need Adobe as I like KPDF for viewing pdfs other than when surfing.

so does anyone have any ideas i can try to get my Adobe plugin working so i can view pdfs in firefox? would be appreciated.