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FS#3802 - Acroread 7.0.1-1 browser plugin broken

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Travis Willard (Cerebral) - Friday, 20 January 2006, 03:50 GMT
Last edited by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Saturday, 21 January 2006, 00:16 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To dorphell (dorphell)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.1 Noodle
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Using Firefox 1.5-3
After installing acroread 7.0.1-1, pdfs no longer load in the browser - just a blank screen. When running firefox from console and attempting to load a PDF, it spits out a usage message and doesn't actually run acroread. If I revert to Acroread 7.0.0-1 everything's fine.

I've traced down the problem to this: when the browser calls the plugin, the plugin constructs a command-line to execute.

Command with 7.0.1:
/usr/bin/acroread -geometry +9000+9000 -tempFileTitle acroread +useFrontEndProgram <tempfilename>

Command with 7.0.0:
/usr/bin/acroread -geometry +9000+9000 -tempFileTitle acroread -openInNewWindow <tempfilename>

Where <tempfilename> is a long file name pointing to where Firefox saved the .pdf temporarily.

The +useFrontEndProgram flag isn't accepted and causes the plugin to fail.
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Sunday, 12 February 2006, 13:43 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Fixed by updating to 7.0.5

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