Firefox – Open PDFs Using Evince Instead of Acrobat

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I already installed mozplugger

sudo apt-get install mozplugger

Then I changed the pdf part of /etc/mozpluggerrc into the following:

application/pdf:pdf:PDF file
application/x-pdf:pdf:PDF file
text/pdf:pdf:PDF file
text/x-pdf:pdf:PDF file
    repeat noisy swallow(evince) fill: evince "$file"
    ACROREAD()
    repeat noisy swallow(kpdf) fill: kpdf "$file"
    repeat noisy swallow(Xpdf) fill: xpdf -g +9000+9000 "$file"
    repeat noisy swallow(okular) fill: okular "$file"
    GV()
    repeat noisy fill exits: evince "$file"

Of course I setted the application settings for pdf to Mozplugger.

Sometimes it works but mostly it dosn't. I don't know why. What do I have to do?

Best Answer

Firefox 15 has a pdf reader integrated with it, it is disabled by default, type about:config, search for "pdfjs.disabled" and set it to "false" double click it. Then go to edit preferences then go to applications search for pdf extension then select to open within firefox that should work for you.

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Evince is a GTK+ PDF and PS viewer to replace gpdf/xpdf/acroread and ggv, and it's open source. Using mozplugger you can embed all sorts of stuff into Mozilla and/or Firefox like media players and openoffice.

First make sure you have Evince and mozplugger installed.

Now open up~/.mozilla/mozpluggerrc in your favorite text editor. Here's how to do it with gedit Press Alt + Ctrl + T and paste

gedit ~/.mozilla/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"

Close Firefox and Thats it!

HERE mine :

application/pdf: pdf: PDF file
application/x-pdf: pdf: PDF file
text/pdf: pdf: PDF file
text/x-pdf: pdf: PDF file
application/x-postscript: ps: PostScript file
application/postscript: ps: PostScript file
    repeat noisy swallow(evince) fill: evince "$file"

# Also load the default configuration
sinclude(/etc/mozpluggerrc)

Note : this plug-ins embed MPlayer Totem OpenOffice ... Too

Chromium PDFs – How to Get Chromium to Show PDFs Using Evince

In /etc/mozpluggerrc.d edit the 40-global_defs.conf and add

### Evince
define(EVINCE, [repeat swallow(evince) fill needs_xembed: evince "$file"])

Now in /etc/mozpluggerrc.d/62-documents.conf , the GV() & ACROREAD() (not necessary though) needs to be replaced with EVINCE() as

application/pdf:pdf:PDF file
application/x-pdf:pdf:PDF file
text/pdf:pdf:PDF file
text/x-pdf:pdf:PDF file

EVINCE() << previously ACROREAD()

    repeat noisy swallow(Xpdf) fill needs_xembed: xpdf -g +9000+9000 "$file"
    repeat noisy swallow(okular) fill needs_xembed: okular "$file"
        repeat noisy swallow(epdfview) fill needs_xembed: epdfview "$file"

EVINCE() << previously GV()

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

Save and try opening PDF files in Chromium , it will open with evince.

Thanks to this Original Source

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