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The code in /etc/mozpluggerrc for figuring out the correct arguments for acroread calls acroread -helpall, but in Adobe Reader 8, it appears that the correct option is -help, not -helpall.
Created attachment 291365 [details] fixes mozpluggerrc to work with acrobat 8 reader; still works with older versions I noticed this too: after installing mozplugger, the acrobat 8 plugin suddenly stopped working. I don't believe mozplugger uses the adobe plugin, but instead invokes Acrobat itself. However, it tests which version-appropriate flags to give to acroread by grepping the output of -helpall, which is not the correct option in acroread 8, as you mention. The attached patch to mozpluggerrc should fix this and still work with older versions.
note that this bug still applies to fc8
Thank you for reporting that this is still a issue in f8. I've updated the version field for this issue to reflect comment #2
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Still broken.
I don't want to take sides in this bug, just let me note that this is not NEW by any meaning of the word. Switching to ASSIGNED so that developers have responsibility to do whatever they want to do with it.
May be wrong because I don't know how mozplugger works..BUT - this seems more than one bug... The -helpall is incorrect but in the section of "Acrobat Reader" which is a number of defines.. which DON'T appear to be used anywhere....(not sure what meaning they have otherwise) later in the file is the following that seems to fire up evince since acroread7 and 5 are long gone... acroread 9 deprecates -openInNewWindow for -openInNewInstance but sort of works if you change the acroread7 to acroread. application/pdf:pdf:PDF file application/x-pdf:pdf:PDF file text/pdf:pdf:PDF file text/x-pdf:pdf:PDF file repeat swallow(acroread) fill: acroread7 -openInNewWindow "$file" repeat swallow(documentShell) fill: acroread5 -geometry +9000+9000 +useFrontEndProgram "$file" repeat noisy swallow(evince) fill: evince "$file" By sort of ... I mean it is possible to lock the gnome session if you run acroread in mozplugin in firefox, close the acroread tab, start acroread in a terminal,(closing the tab doesn't appear to kill the acroread in the backround so CtrlAltF2 login and kill -9 acroread brings everything back to life) I am running fedora10, mozplugger 1.10.1.3 (but 1.10.1.4 from rawhide is the same) tried running acroread 8.1.3 and 9.1.0 firefox 3.0.x ...not sure where to report this or against what. what to do
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
it's fixed in 1.12.1.