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Title: Acrobat Plug-In for Netscape Communicator 4.5

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Acrobat Plug-In for Netscape Communicator 4.5

Symptom:

When using the Adobe Acrobat Plug-In for Netscape Communicator 4.5, at startup a message like

"can't find libc.so.5 , no such file or directory
unable to start nppdf.so"

Cause:

Solution:

• Get a new plugin (if available - no new version was available on Feb 12 1999) ... or

• Make sure, the package shlibs5 (series a) is installed. Then
• Enter a line like

  unset LD_PRELOAD
  

  into the file /usr/X11R6/bin/acroread. The top of that file should look like

  ---cut---
  #!/bin/sh
  #
  unset LD_PRELOAD 
  
  ver=3.02
  install_dir=/usr/X11R6/lib/Acrobat3/Reader
  ...
  ---cut---
  

  Now reconfigure the Navigator (under "Edit --> Preferences --> Navigator --> Applications").

  Hilight the entry "Portable Document Format", click on Edit and enter the following into the edit box :

  /usr/X11R6/bin/acroread %s
  

  Accept the setting by pressing the "OK" button. Now try to load a .pdf file into the Navigator. The Acrobat Reader should now be started flawlessly as an external application.

  Please note however, that there might still be an error message about nppdf.so. You can safely ignore it.

Keywords: PLUGIN, ACROBAT, NETSCAPE, COMMUNICATOR, LIBC5, NPPDF, NPPDF.SO

Categories: Commercial Applications

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