Closed Bug 86454 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

Mozilla Not Paying Attention to Registry Settings Associated With Acrobat

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(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect, P1)

x86
Windows 2000
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED INVALID

People

(Reporter: lmcquarr, Assigned: mscott)

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Details

(Whiteboard: pdt+)

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When Acrobat is installed, we do more that drop our plug-in into the appropriate plug-ins directory. There are actually a number of browser-related registry settings that are set for IE and Nav 4.X to allow Acrobat to be a helper application for a handfull of other file types: PDFX -- Acrobat catalog RMF -- Acrobat Digital Rights Management (eBooks) applicaton/vnd.rmf FDF and XFDF -- Acrobat forms data format application/vdn.fdf application/vnd.adobe.xfdf When I queried Arun as to how to set the registry settings in our installer for mozilla, this is what he found out: From av: "Is not registration as a helper app just a system specific thing? At least on Windows it is all specified in the registry where Mozilla looks to see what helper apps are present. Should be irrelevant to the browser. Or am I missing something?" No build of mozilla (including today's) that I have ever used has ever properly set itself up for the above Acrobat-related mime types. Even when it converts a 4.X profile, it does not know about these mime types. Arun suggested that I therefore enter a bug. I will be adding more detail to this bug on exactly what our installer sets up in the registry for these mime types.
I am putting the browser-related registry settings we set in Acrobat in an attachment (cut and pasted from our browser setting repair code).
Liz suggested the possibility that a workaround exists for this registry matter, and that her patch installer could do it. Any suggestions? 'BTW -- There must be some way for these registry items to be set up correctly, either by fixing mozilla or something we can do in our patch installer. FDF is required for Acrobat forms to work and RMF is required for eBooks to work. ' If Mozilla isn't looking up the registry for helper applications, then lots of things are affected. I'm CC'ing ssu for advice, and peterl as well.
Over to mscott who (I think) owns helper apps. This bug almost sounds like an installer or profile migration bug, but it's weird. Liz, would running the updated Acrobat installer fix up these keys? If this is something that needs to be done in the installer (or profile migration), our embedding vendors may want to know about it.
Assignee: av → mscott
You shouldn't have to do anything special. Acrobat (as a helper app) works for me right out of the box. I install it. I can see that it tweaks my registry settings binding .pdf files to launch acrobat. I then click on a PDF file and acrobat is launched (assuming I select Open at the helper app dialog and not save). Can you give me an example I can test where this doesn't work for you?
Priority: -- → P1
Keywords: mozilla0.9.2
If you look at my attachments for registry settings, it is not Acrobat as a helper application for PDF that I am concerned about. It is for these file and mime types that I describe in the bug report (RMF, FDF, XFDF, PDFX). These mime types do NOT work for me when I do a fresh install of mozilla. I have to hand edit the preferences in order to set them up. You can see this if you open the mozilla prefs -- there are no helper apps registered for FDF, RMF, XFDF etc (you must install Acrobat first -- OK to use free reader at this point). BTW -- when you drop the NPPDF32.dll plug-in into the mozilla plug-ins folder (which we will do in our SP1 Acrobat 5 update installer), our plug-in becomes the handler for .PDF files (this is the desired behavior, not launching Acrobat as a helper application. If you want a test case, here is one for Acrobat forms: 1 - Install Acrobat 5 -- free reader from www.adobe.com or borrow a full product that I gave to various folks there like Andrei. 2 - Run mozilla and browse to http://access.adobe.com/browser/pingform.pdf 3 - Press the SUBMIT button Expected result: Large box on the left hand bottom of screen filled FDF. (compare with Netscape 4.X)
Marking this one pdt+ after a discussion with chofmann -- and adding chofmann to the cc' list.
Whiteboard: pdt+
There might be several conflicting problems here. I don't think any of them are helper app related. After installing Acrobat 5.0, I browsed my registry settings and found the correct mappings for PDF, RMF, FDF, and XFDF. Acrobat DID NOT install any registry settings for PDFX. So it makes sense that PDFX wouldn't work because there aren't registry settings for that. Are you sure we aren't talking about plugins not properly recognizing these mime types? I'm seeing acrobat get properly invoked as a helper app using mozilla when I click on files with these extensions. I'm still looking for some test urls that contain .xfdf and .fdf on the net. when I run your test case, we start up acrobat as a helper app and I click on the submit button but it says I need to be running within a browser to do this.
http://sonify.org/tools/freesounds/sfx/animals/ contains .rmf file links which when I click on properly launch acrobat 5 for me as a helper app.
Hi folks: sorry I have been a bit out of the loop. Let me ask a naive question: Just where can I get a version of mozilla that actually installs (rather than a zip file)? If you can point me at the installable version, then I can verify that the behavior is working as you say and you can close this bug. (With regards to PDFX -- that is not very important in the grand scheme of things. )
btw, it shouldn't matter if you are using a installed version or a zip version. These settings all come from the windows registry and aren't set by Netscape. We are just reading them in. The code's the same regardless of how you installed the app from a helper app point of view.
Hi folks: I have also verified that this is not a bug. Mozilla *is* paying attention to the settings for FDF, RMF, etc (some previous version that I was using did not). It is, however, confusing that when you open the preferences for helper applications, these settings do not show up (only text/html). You may close this bug and I apologize for the wild goose chase I sent you on (doing too many things at once, as usual). Liz
Per Liz McQuarrie's comments, this is invalid.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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