Summary: | Problem with mozilla-launcher script and Adobe Reader 7. | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Kurt <kurt> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla> |
Status: | RESOLVED UPSTREAM | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | x86 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Kurt
2005-03-28 19:17:25 UTC
It seems Adobe Reader is kind of dumb in that it just throws out the -remote flag as $1 no matter what browser is filled in for the weblink. If you put in say konqueror is still sends the -remote flag even though I don't see where konquere even supports this. Another note is that here is the output when acoread is run from the command line and a hyperlink is clicked on. kurt@cheech kurt $ acroread Trying to use an existing instance of the browser. mozilla-bin No running windows found Error: No running window found. mozilla-bin exited with non-zero status (2) Ok, I guess adobe covered their rears with: Web Browser Support PDF files may be viewed within the following browsers: o Mozilla 1.7.3, 1.8 o Netscape 7 o Firefox 1.0 as far as browsers go. Ok, after looking at the different mozilla command line options I'm thinking mozilla-launcher is fine and that Adobe Reader is just dumb because it assumes a browswer windows is already open since it uses the -remote flag. So this one may not worth trying to fix, but I will leave that call up to the devs. acroread is binary-only so we can't fix it in their code. They don't have a public bugzilla so we can't report the bug. Yuck. I'm working on an experimental version, I'll make it available for you to try soon. Kurt, could you try this: wget http://gentoo.org/~agriffis/misc/mozilla-launcher-1.33-test1 mv mozilla-launcher-1.33-test1 /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher chmod +x /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher Then try using acroread and let me know how it goes. Ok, this bug report appears to be bogus. Adobe Reader 7 allows you to set a browser executable under Weblink in Preferences. I set it simply to "firefox". When clicking on a link in the Adobe Reader, it attempts to use -remote first. If that doesn't work, it attempts to start the browser. In other words, it works fine with the current mozilla-launcher It seems to work better with firefox, but it still doesn't work right with Mozilla. I don't know if you bothered to try it with Mozilla or not but it still doesn't work. We can't fix proprietary products like Acrobat Reader, closing. |