289825 - Adobe Reader 7.0 plugin doesn't work

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Camino Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Philippe Jandot]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050331 Camino/0.8.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050331 Camino/0.8.3

When Camino starts the following message is displayed on the console:
/Applications/Camino.app/Contents/MacOS/Camino: can't map file:
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/AdobePDFViewer.plugin ((os/kern) invalid argument)

Moreover pdf are opened with preview instead of the plugin.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Load a pdf from a web page

Actual Results:  
Preview was launched

Expected Results:  
The pdf document should have been displayed in the browser window using the plugin

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

This is by design: Adobe built their plugin to only work with Safari (it
installs a framework into the Safari app).

To view PDFs in Camino, use the PDF Browser Plugin found at
http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginpdf/

Comment 2

[Philippe Jandot]

I don't see how "this is by design" your justification seems pure nonsence to me.

By the way installing the adobe frameworks manualy into camino doesn't solve the
problem.

I'm more keen to say that it is the same problem as the java plugin.

And I'm aware of the other pdf plugin but it is far inferior.

Comment 3

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

By Adobe's design, not anyone else's:

"Adobe PDFViewer for Mac OS X will not run correctly on a system that doesn't
meet the following requirements:

-- Safari browser 

[...]

Acrobat does not support viewing PDF files within other browsers on Mac OS X
such as Internet Explorer." 

<http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/331040.html>

Complain to Adobe that they should return to using a standard web browser
plugin, but do not reopen this bug.  There is nothing we can do on this end to
make Adobe's plugin work.