I believe you will need to install the plugin, or more probable, put the acroread plugin file into the plugin folder for Konq and Firefox. You may also want to look at the mozplugger extension/plugin.
Someone Said:
>
>I guess I asked the wrong question in my previous inquiry
>and one of the responses helped me to see more clearly ;))
>
>Perhaps the question should have been stated this way:
>Is there a way to open and view pdf files from within an html menu.
>
>I use both Konqueror and Firefox, but when either opens a pdf
>file, nothing is displayed, even though both xpdf and acro work
>on my system. I think both K and F are trying to use some other
>pdf reader that isn't working correctly.
>
>So, perhaps an even better question might be how can I specify
>which pdf reader to use in each browser? I can't find anytthing
>under Konqueror > settings > configure Konqueror to accomplish
>that; and when I try to open a pdf file with Firefox, it opens a
>dialog box that says, "What should Firefox do with this file?"
>and under the "Open with" option, the selection window is blank.
>
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>On Wednesday 16 March 2005 09:52, you wrote:
>> >Is there a way to execute xpdf from within an html menu?
>> >For example with a link similar to these two (which don't work ;)):
>> > <a href="xpdf filename.pdf">view filename.pdf</a>
>> > <a href="exec xpdf filename.pdf">view filename.pdf</a>
>>
>> HTML doesn't have that ability, and shouldn't. However, you can configure
>> browsers to handle such file types in specified ways.
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