The Problem, as experienced by Jeff McDonald:
> > when I click on a PDF document, the file is downloaded but the acroread
> > viewer never comes up.
The Reason, as described by Jim Amundson:
> There is an extremely subtle interaction between the Motif 2.x in Netscape and
> Motif 1.2 in Acroread. I'm omitting the gory details -- I'll be happy to
> supply them if anyone would like to understand. The bottom line is that you
> need to use a wrapper script for acroread if you want to call it from
> Netscape. Here's the minimal version:
The Solution, also by Jim:
> -----------------------cut---------------------------
> #!/bin/sh
> unset LD_PRELOAD
> /bin/acroread $*
> -----------------------cut---------------------------
>
> Call the script acrowrapper, tell Netscape to open pdf files with acrowrapper
> instead of acroread, and you'll be all set.
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