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From: Nilesh Govindrajan <me@××××××××.com>
To: Gentoo User Mailing List <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Acroread
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 09:14:51
Message-Id: CAHgBc-t9XS3hN8MNBb=PgRSYaS8LqMiNjNUBbVoc7QNLM2Xg0w@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Acroread by Nikos Chantziaras
1 That's what I did. But I tend to switch browsers too often (chromium and
2 Firefox).
3 Firefox has a pdf.js addon, doesn't work reliably many times.
4
5 (sorry for top post, mobile).
6
7 --
8 Nilesh Govindrajan
9 http://nileshgr.com
10 On Feb 17, 2013 1:49 PM, "Nikos Chantziaras" <realnc@×××××.com> wrote:
11
12 > On 17/02/13 09:52, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
13 >
14 >> Is it officially supported now? Or has been discontinued like flash?
15 >>
16 >> I'm mainly interested in the NPAPI plug in since it would allow me to
17 >> use the same thing in Firefox and chromium.
18 >>
19 >> Are there any other good PDF readers with NPAPI? Don't suggest binary
20 >> chrome.
21 >>
22 >
23 > You can use the Chrome PDF plugin in Chromium too. Just symlink it into
24 > chromium's plugin directory:
25 >
26 > ln -s /opt/google/chrome/libpdf.so /usr/lib/chromium-browser/
27 >
28 > And you can also use Chrome's PPAPI Flash plugin in Chromium (which is
29 > supported, unlike the NPAPI Flash plugin.) In your /etc/chromium/default
30 > file, put this in it:
31 >
32 > # Options to pass to chromium.
33 > CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--ppapi-flash-**path=/opt/google/chrome/**
34 > PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.**so"
35 >
36 > Simply keep google-chrome emerged.
37 >
38 >
39 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Acroread Yohan Pereira <yohan.pereira@×××××.com>