On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
kpartsplugin is perfect. Thanks a ton! -- Nilesh Govindrajan http://nileshgr.com
