Acroread Problem

John Thompson JohnThompson at new.rr.com
Tue Mar 23 20:30:56 UTC 2004


On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 14:52:53 -0600
Fritz Whittington <f.whittington at att.net> wrote:

> If you really liked Acroread, you can re-install it.  As long as you 
> remove the plug-in, Mozilla will honor your choice of an external 
> "helper" app, like xpdf.  The problem is, that IF there's a plugin 
> installed that can handle a file, then Mozilla will happily ignore
> your attempts to set up a helper app to handle it.  You might even
> discover that Acroread will work as an external helper app.  But at
> least then you can have your choice.

Firefox must be different,then.  I completely deleted nppdf.so from my system and it still opens pdf files in acroread instead of xpdf.


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-John (JohnThompson at new.rr.com)





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