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It used to be that pdf documents would open within chromium, after I installed the chromium-libpdf package from the aur. However, recently, the documents are simply being downloaded again. chromium-libpdf is enabled in about:plugins, and both chromium and chromium-libpdf are up to date. Does anyone know what could be the issue with this?
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I am also having this issue, both with chromium-libpdf and chromium-libpdf-dev. libpdf.so is in /usr/lib/chromium/. Latest versions of the relevant packages.
pacman -Qi chromium chromium-libpdf
Name : chromium
Version : 32.0.1700.107-1
Description : The open-source project behind Google Chrome, an attempt at creating a safer, faster, and more stable browser
Architecture : x86_64
URL : http://www.chromium.org/
Licenses : BSD
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : gtk2 nss alsa-lib xdg-utils bzip2 libevent libxss icu libgcrypt ttf-font systemd dbus flac opus
snappy speech-dispatcher pciutils libpulse harfbuzz harfbuzz-icu desktop-file-utils
hicolor-icon-theme
Optional Deps : kdebase-kdialog: needed for file dialogs in KDE
Required By : chromium-libpdf chromium-pepper-flash
Optional For : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 122478.00 KiB
Packager : Evangelos Foutras <evangelos@foutrelis.com>
Build Date : Tue 04 Feb 2014 03:16:41 AM PST
Install Date : Wed 12 Feb 2014 11:02:52 PM PST
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : Yes
Validated By : Signature
Name : chromium-libpdf
Version : 1:32.0.1700.107-1
Description : Google Chrome's PDF plugin for Chromium (stable version)
Architecture : x86_64
URL : http://www.google.com/chrome
Licenses : custom:chrome
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : chromium
Optional Deps : None
Required By : None
Optional For : None
Conflicts With : chromium-libpdf-dev chromium-libpdf-stable
Replaces : chromium-libpdf-stable
Installed Size : 6489.00 KiB
Packager : Unknown Packager
Build Date : Tue 18 Feb 2014 01:40:28 AM PST
Install Date : Tue 18 Feb 2014 01:41:33 AM PST
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : No
Validated By : NoneOffline
I don't know how to solve the problem with chromium-libpdf, but if you want the pdf to open directly you can install PDF Viewer (the pdf viewer from Firefox) in Chromium. It's open source and uses HTML5 to display PDF files directly in the browser.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta … e-ntp-icon
Last edited by logos88 (2014-02-22 12:44:12)
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Thanks for the suggestion logos88. I've been switching back and forth between firefox and chromium for years now and I might have to give firefox a try again.
In any case, yesterday's chromium upgrade to 33.0.1750.117 solved the issue for me.
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