[lug] Netscape plug-in/hlepers

[Wayde Allen]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Whit Morrison wrote:

> This is not a linux question, but is related because of the lack of
> applications for linux.  Without an acrobat reader for linux I tried to
> set up ghostview/ghostscript as a helper file for netscape to display a
> pdf file attached to a web page.  When the html file containing the
> reference to the pdf is brought into netscape gv/gs (i tried both) is
> executed but comes up with a blank display area.   In short, how can I
> display a pdf file using netscape (v 4.07)?

Well ... I wouldn't exactly say that there is a great "lack of
applications for Linux".  Why don't you simply get the acrobat reader that
Adobe distributes for Linux 
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html ? 

- Wayde
  (wallen at boulder.nist.gov)