In my previous post I described installing Reader v8 on Gentoo.

After that installation I discovered that I could not view PDF files in Firefox. Being a pragmatic Linux user, I ignored this inconvenience until tonight when I thought that I’d find out what I did wrong.

Firstly I checked what plugins were installed in Firefox by entering about:plugins in the address bar. This showed that the Version 7 plugin was installed but not the Version 8 plugin.

The fix is simple…

angus ~ # rm /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/nppdf.so
angus ~ # ln -s /opt/Adobe/Reader8/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/nppdf.so
angus ~ #

These commands are executed as root, and after restarting Firefox PDF files are rendered in all their glory, with Reader Version 8