Viewing PDF in browser (Firefox) on Ubuntu 9.04

Question

How can I view pdfs in the browser in Ubuntu? I've found a solution to use

apt-get install acroread mozilla-acroread acroread-plugins

but that doesn't seem to work anymore, it says "couldn't find package". Anyone know how to get this working? Right now I have to download the pdf.

Answer 1

You can try using Greasemonkey (click here to install) and the PDF/PPT/TIF viewer with Google docs script (click here to add to GreaseMonkey). It will load all PDFs into Google Docs Viewer.

Answer 2

This worked for me on 10.10: sudo apt-get install mozplugger

I think I had acroread installed (not sure, since it wasn't working), so I had to tweak mozplugger a bit to get it to work by adding a single line: repeat noisy swallow(evince) fill: evince "$file"

So my file looks like:

sudo gedit /etc/mozpluggerrc

text/x-pdf:pdf:PDF file
    ACROREAD()
    [...]
    repeat noisy swallow(evince) fill: evince "$file"
    [...]
    repeat noisy fill exits: evince "$file"

    application/x-dvi:dvi:DVI file [...]

Restarted Firefox, works great. (in FF, under edit > preferences > applications > PDF Document, it says "Use MozPlugger 1.13.3 handler")

(sorry to bring up an an old post, but this popped up on a google search for me)

Answer 3

Have you tried the PDFvue add-in for Firefox? I believe it is in experimental currently. :)

Answer 4

Enable extra repo sources as mentioned here. Once the extra repos have been loaded, try the command you used above, i.e, apt-get install acroread mozilla-acroread acroread-plugins.

If this doesn't help, add Canonical partner repo under System->Administration->Software Sources->Third Party Software.

The option should look like this:

URI: http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu

Distrubution: jaunty

Components: partner