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I'm trying to open .pdf files in Firefox with acrordrdc installed via snap. I tried:

  1. Since acrordrdc file.pdf works I tried using a "wrapper" file:

    #!/bin/bash
acrordrdc $1

  2. Editing the acrordrdc.desktop (see Changing default app for PDF).

In the first case (the wrapper solution) acrordrdc opens with an empty window. No file is showed.

In the second case I can select "Acrobat Reader DC" in Firefox but nothing happens when the files is downloaded. Acrobat is not opened.

Edit. After the N0rbert answer I tried to modify my wrapper:

#!/bin/bash
cp $i ~/Downloads/renamed.pdf
acrordrdc ~/Downloads/renamed.pdf

and now it works. Now I need to find a way to remove the file(s) after I read it (them).

I don't understand why I need to rename it. If I have:

#!/bin/bash
cp $i ~/Downloads/$1
acrordrdc ~/Downloads/$1

it doesn't work. The file is copied but not opened.

Gabriele
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  • The acrordrdc snap is Wine-based. So there may exist some specifics with file-associations. Did you tried to open the PDF file from file-manager by right click on it and selecting Open With → Adobe Acrobat Reader DC ? Is it working normally? – N0rbert Jul 29 '20 at 16:15
  • @N0rbert I just tried. It works normally. – Gabriele Jul 29 '20 at 17:05
  • What is your Ubuntu version and desktop? – N0rbert Jul 29 '20 at 17:44
  • Ubuntu 20.04 with Mate. I installed Ubuntu Classic + ubuntu-mate-desktop – Gabriele Jul 29 '20 at 17:53
  • I tried to prepare the answer on Ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS, but acrordrdc acts weird here. I'll check the Ubuntu MATE 20.04 LTS and report results. – N0rbert Jul 29 '20 at 17:55
  • I did some research and summarized it in below answer. – N0rbert Jul 29 '20 at 20:11

2 Answers2

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After some debugging in Ubuntu MATE 20.04 LTS I discovered that Firefox copies PDF file of interest to the /tmp folder.

The /tmp folder can't be accessed by this snapped application. Wrapper script does not help either. So it is impossible to integrate /snap/bin/acrordrdc with Firefox.

I'll recommend to remove snapped version of Adobe Acrobat with

snap remove acrordrdc

and install native pretty old deb-based version of Adobe Reader 9.5.5 by:

cd ~/Downloads
wget ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.5.5/enu/AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i386linux_enu.deb
sudo apt-get install ./AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i386linux_enu.deb
sudo apt-get install libxml2:i386 gtk2-engines-murrine:i386 gtk2-engines-pixbuf:i386 libcanberra-gtk-module:i386 libatk-bridge2.0-0:i386 libatk-adaptor:i386

and then choose it in the Firefox settings.

N0rbert
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I finally managed to get a wrapper to work. It has to do these steps:

  1. If no argument given, call acrordrdc and exit.

  2. If the target file (“$1”) is not located below /home, copy it to a location in your home directory and change the target name.

  3. Convert the target name to DOS (eg. Z:\home\msohnius\tmp\file.pdf).

  4. Call acrordrdc with this new argument.

MSohnius
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