HOWTO: Embed PDFs with Evince in Mozilla/Firefox

[saik0]

Evince is a GTK+ PDF and PS viewer to replace gpdf/xpdf/acroread and ggv, and it's open source (woohoo). Using mozplugger you can embed all sorts of stuff into Mozilla and/or Firefox like media players and openoffice. There is another HOWTO on how to embed totem here in this forum at http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=17727

First make sure you have Evince and mozplugger installed (duh). Both of them are in the Hoary universe repositories. I assume you know how to do that...

Now open up /etc/mozpluggerrc in your favorite text editor with superuser priveleges. Here's how to do it with gedit:

sudo gedit /etc/mozpluggerrc

Wherever you see this:
application/pdf: pdf: PDF file
application/x-pdf: pdf: PDF file
text/pdf: pdf: PDF file
text/x-pdf: pdf: PDF file

and

application/x-postscript: ps: PostScript file
application/postscript: ps: PostScript file

add this on the next line:

	repeat noisy swallow(evince) fill: evince "$file"

Thats it! You dont even have to restart your browser. Enjoy.

[saik0]

Here is a screenshot, of Adobe's official manual of Adobe Reader, in what else but PDF format. I thought that was pretty hilarious.

[dabeej]

Anyone tried using the Acrobat Reader 7.0 for linux in firefox?

[saik0]

Anyone tried using the Acrobat Reader 7.0 for linux in firefox?

The acroread package in the Marillat repo works fine. This guide will tell you how to add it [http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/RestrictedFormats]

If you really wanna use Adobe Reader 7 just install acroread and mozilla-acroread and you'll be in business. I really gotta recommend Evince, it has the ability to search unlike gpdf, and it uses GTK widgets, acroread looked pretty ugly. Acroread is noticably faster on rendering thumbails on some larger PDFS (lots of vector graphics slowed it down a bit for me) but overall I liked Evince better. Hope that helps =)

[dabeej]

Yes, it did. Thanks a LOT!

[jonny]

This works with Epiphany, too . Personally, I prefer Epiphany to Firefox, as it's quicker to start and maintains a more consistent Gnome desktop look and feel.

[bored2k]

This works with Epiphany, too . Personally, I prefer Epiphany to Firefox, as it's quicker to start and maintains a more consistent Gnome desktop look and feel.

If epiphany/galeon would be able to use firefox's plugins, I would love it. Adblock and all those extensions are just too good to be left unused.

[dejitarob]

For some reason evince was removed from the ubuntu repositories. In the meantime, it is available from debian's. You will also need an updated libfontconfig1.

[Nis]

If epiphany/galeon would be able to use firefox's plugins, I would love it. Adblock and all those extensions are just too good to be left unused.

Just wait until Epiphany with its own Adblock extension hits Breezy.

[merlyn]

Outstanding!

I for one prefer things this way, not having multiple windows open all the time.

Now if anybody out there knows how to do this with Nautilus as well, that would be cool.

Cheers.