The Arch Linux people have instructions on how to get the Official Google Chrome PDF Reader working inside of Google Chromium. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Chromium#Open_PDF_files_inside_Chromium I am running ~amd64 with the stable Chromium ebuild, which works well for me, and followed the instructions on how to do this. I extracted libpdf.so and placed it in /usr/lib64/chromium-browser/ The following is a summary of what I did. It might be a good idea to do it in an empty directory to avoid possible file name collisions. wget https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb ar vx google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb rm debian-binary control.tar.gz tar -xf data.tar.lzma ./opt/google/chrome/libpdf.so mv -i ./opt/google/chrome/libpdf.so /usr/lib64/chromium-browser/ rm -r ./opt/ data.tar.lzma google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb There is also probably a cleaner way of extracting this, but I am not familiar with the use of ar, so I did it this way. I don't know if Google hosts explicit versions of chrome on their servers, but if they do, it seems to me that we could implement this with a USE flag in the chromium ebuild. Otherwise, it would still be a USE flag, but in that case, the flag probably should enable a post install dependency on a second www-plugins/chrome-pdf-9999 ebuild. I couldn't find direct download links to individual versions, but I also don't have time to look. I am posting this in the bug tracker so other people with more time on their hands can look into this possibility.
Just to be clear, this works on Gentoo and people on the Gentoo forums are doing it. I added the forum thread url to this bug.
This has already been requested, and the current chromium maintainers don't want to do it. You are welcome to use the package I maintain in my overlay, which basically does exactly what your instructions say. https://bitbucket.org/floppym/floppym-overlay/src/default/www-plugins/chromium-pdf/ layman -a floppym emerge www-plugins/chromium-pdf *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 341937 ***
(In reply to comment #2) > This has already been requested, and the current chromium maintainers don't > want to do it. > > You are welcome to use the package I maintain in my overlay, which basically > does exactly what your instructions say. > > https://bitbucket.org/floppym/floppym-overlay/src/default/www-plugins/chromium-pdf/ > > layman -a floppym > emerge www-plugins/chromium-pdf > > *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 341937 *** Maybe there is a way that we can ask Google to release the source code. That would make this a much nicer situation. Anyway, thanks for the information about your overlay.
