Acroread Problem

[Guy Fraser]

Aaron Konstam wrote:

>On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 10:26:49AM -0500, Clint wrote:
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>>I'm having a problem with Acroread. I installed it following the 
>>instructions found at artoo, and it has worked without any problems 
>>until recently. I'm suspecting some update I've run is interfering with 
>>it now. When I browse with Mozilla 1.6 to a pdf file online, Acroread 
>>stops with the pop-up error message:
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>>"There was an error opening this document. No such file or directory."
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>>A blank Acroread application window is open in the bottom right-hand 
>>corner of the browser.
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>>I have checked that there is indeed a pdf file at the location, by using 
>>wget. Then I can easily open it using either xpdf or Acroread locally. 
>>So the problem seems to be with Mozilla and Acroread.
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>>Is anyone experiencing similar symptoms?
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>>If this is unresolvable, how I can I tell Mozilla to use xpdf as the 
>>default pdf viewer?
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>I don't know about the error buit to you can change to xpdf is the
>preferences of Mozilla.
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Acroread sux!
Xpdf seems to work much more reliably than acroread.