Since no one could answer this question, I spent several hours looking for the solution. My problem stems from the plugger.so plug-in having already registered the pdf mime type to xpdf.
Here is what I found about how to fix it and make Adobe Acrobat the default app for opening *.pdf files with Mozilla. Install Acrobat and be sure a copy of acroread is in your path. Link /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and nppdf.so (the acrobat plug-in). cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins && ln -s /usr/local/Acrobat4/Browsers/intellinux/nppdf.so Move the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/plugger.so to a directory not in your path (/home/public is a good one for this). Open Mozilla and the About:plugins will no longer show any mime types handled by plugger. Close Mozilla. Edit the /etc/pluggerrc file and comment out any line referring to the pdf mime type: #application/pdf:pdf:PDF file #application/x-pdf:pdf:PDF file #text/x-pdf:pdf:PDF file # repeat swallow(documentShell) fill: acroread -geometry +9000+9000 -xrm "userFrontEndProgram: FALSE' "$file" # repeat swallow(xpdf) fill:xpdf -g +9000+9000 -err "$file" Save your edited file. Move the plugger.so back to the /usr/lib/mozilla plugins directory. That works! Adobe Acrobat now opens *.pdf files in Mozilla. And I hope this helps someone else and that my taking up the bandwidth hasn't been a solution in search of a problem. e. > I have a site that I must get *.pdf forms from, but xpdf persists in > cutting off one side so that I cannot print the form correctly. I > discovered that the Linux version of Acrobat does not do this, but Mozilla > persists in opening all *.pdf files with xpdf, even though I have set > acroread to open that file extension. Can someone tell me what I need to > do to change the helper application to Acrobat from xpdf? Or, as an > alternative, what do I need to do to correctly show and print forms with > xpdf? > > I didn't have any trouble at all getting Opera to use acroread, but I can't > figure out how to get Mozilla to do it. > > thanks in advance, > > e.
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