fc5 firefox won't open pdf: Unhandled MIME type: 'application/octet-stream'

[sean darcy]

Since upgrading to fc5 firefox won't show pdf docs. I can 
save the doc and open it in acroread, evince, etc.

When firefox tries to to show a pdf file I get an error window:

Unable to open document

Unhandled MIME type: 'application/octet-stream'

I've messed with mozpluggerrc to use acroread, then I tried 
evince. Same problem.

FWIW, x86_64.

Any help appreciated

sean

[Philippe]

On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 23:43 -0400, sean wrote:
>  Since upgrading to fc5 firefox won't show pdf docs. I can 
>  save the doc and open it in acroread, evince, etc.
>  
>  When firefox tries to to show a pdf file I get an error window:
>  
>  Unable to open document
>  
>  Unhandled MIME type: 'application/octet-stream' 
Hi,

Maybe you can try Firefox extension PDF Download , which helps a lot,

Philippe

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[Antonio M]

2006/4/9, PHD <phd2(a)fcomfrench.com&gt;:
>  On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 23:43 -0400, sean wrote:
>  > Since upgrading to fc5 firefox won't show pdf docs. I can
>  > save the doc and open it in acroread, evince, etc.
>  >
>  > When firefox tries to to show a pdf file I get an error window:
>  >
>  > Unable to open document
>  >
>  > Unhandled MIME type: 'application/octet-stream'
>  Hi,
>
>  Maybe you can try Firefox extension PDF Download , which helps a lot,
>
>  Philippe
>
>  --
>  PHD <phd2(a)fcomfrench.com&gt;
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Have you got nppdf plugin installed??

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[sean darcy]

antonio montagnani wrote:
>  2006/4/9, PHD <phd2(a)fcomfrench.com&gt;:
>  
> >On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 23:43 -0400, sean wrote:
> >
> >>Since upgrading to fc5 firefox won't show pdf docs. I can
> >>save the doc and open it in acroread, evince, etc.
> >>
> >>When firefox tries to to show a pdf file I get an error window:
> >>
> >>Unable to open document
> >>
> >>Unhandled MIME type: 'application/octet-stream'
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >Maybe you can try Firefox extension PDF Download , which helps a lot,
> >
> >Philippe
> >
> >--
> >PHD <phd2(a)fcomfrench.com&gt;
> >
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> >
>  
>  Have you got nppdf plugin installed??
>  
>  --
>  Antonio Montagnani
>  Skype : antoniomontag
>   
I should have been clearer. I'm using amd64, firefox.x86_64.

I do have:

/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so -> 
/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so

But nppdf.so is from acroread.i386. I don't think an i386 
plugin will work with firefox.x86-64. That's why I'm using 
mozplugger.

sean

[sean darcy]

PHD wrote:
>  On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 23:43 -0400, sean wrote:
>  
> >Since upgrading to fc5 firefox won't show pdf docs. I can 
> >save the doc and open it in acroread, evince, etc.
> >
> >When firefox tries to to show a pdf file I get an error window:
> >
> >Unable to open document
> >
> >Unhandled MIME type: 'application/octet-stream'
>  
>  Hi,
>  
>  Maybe you can try Firefox extension PDF Download , which helps a lot,
>  
>  Philippe
>   
Tried that.

If I click on a pdf doc, I get 3 choices:

Download It       Open PDF   Open as HTML

Download It is the same as right click-> Save Link As

Open as HTML is useful

But Open PDF doesn't work, which is what I want. It doesn't 
give an error message, but I assume it's the same problem

sean

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 09 April 2006 08:06, sean wrote:
> antonio montagnani wrote:
> > 2006/4/9, PHD <phd2(a)fcomfrench.com&gt;:
> >>On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 23:43 -0400, sean wrote:
> >>>Since upgrading to fc5 firefox won't show pdf docs. I can
> >>>save the doc and open it in acroread, evince, etc.
> >>>
> >>>When firefox tries to to show a pdf file I get an error window:
> >>>
> >>>Unable to open document
> >>>
> >>>Unhandled MIME type: 'application/octet-stream'
> >>
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>Maybe you can try Firefox extension PDF Download , which helps a
> >> lot,
> >>
> >>Philippe
> >>
> >>--
> >>PHD <phd2(a)fcomfrench.com&gt;
> >>
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> >
> > Have you got nppdf plugin installed??
> >
> > --
> > Antonio Montagnani
> > Skype : antoniomontag
>
> I should have been clearer. I'm using amd64, firefox.x86_64.
>
> I do have:
>
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so ->
> /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so
>
> But nppdf.so is from acroread.i386. I don't think an i386
> plugin will work with firefox.x86-64. That's why I'm using
> mozplugger.
>
> sean 
Its not working here either, on an amd64 turion with the 386 FC5 
installed, FF is 1.5.0.2.  The plugin nppdf.so is installed.

Has there been a fix yet?  This is fairly important as lots of the net 
comes in pdf files.

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[Yuandan Zhang]

I have the same problem when I embed evince onto firefox using
mozillapluger. I found this is because evince snuffles file type according
to the filename extension, but web plugins get web contents in a temp file
without extension.

one working around is add xpdf as the first option at
/etc/mozpluggerrc
e.g.

application/pdf:pdf:PDF file
application/x-pdf:pdf:PDF file
text/pdf:pdf:PDF file
text/x-pdf:pdf:PDF file
        repeat noisy swallow(Xpdf) fill: xpdf -g +9000+9000 "$file"
        repeat noisy swallow(evince) fill: evince "$file"
        ACROREAD()
        repeat noisy swallow(kpdf) fill: kpdf "$file"
        GV()



On 4/9/06, sean <seandarcy2(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Since upgrading to fc5 firefox won't show pdf docs. I can
>  save the doc and open it in acroread, evince, etc.
>
>  When firefox tries to to show a pdf file I get an error window:
>
>  Unable to open document
>
>  Unhandled MIME type: 'application/octet-stream'
>
>  I've messed with mozpluggerrc to use acroread, then I tried
>  evince. Same problem.
>
>  FWIW, x86_64.
>
>  Any help appreciated
>
>  sean
>
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