On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Nuno Silva <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2013-02-17, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: >> On Feb 17, 2013 3:04 PM, "Yohan Pereira" <[email protected]> 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
