Chromium and PDFs

[milomak]

I see it wants to download them instaeda of opening them. How can I change the behaviour for PDF files to be opened by the default PDF app?

[mzilikazi]

It's a hack but you can use libpdf.so from the latest google chrome build.

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wget http://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-unstable_current_i386.deb

OR

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wget http://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-unstable_current_amd64.deb

You could unpack the .deb or IMHO mc is easier.

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su
mc

Navigate to

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/usr/lib/chromium-browser/

<TAB> to the other pane and navigate to:

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google-chrome-unstable_current_amd64.deb

Press <enter>
You are now virtually inside the .deb
Navigate to:

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CONTENTS/opt/google/chrome/libpdf.so

Press F5
You should now have

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/usr/lib/chromium-browser/libpdf.so

Open chromium-browser
about:plugins
Enable Chrome PDF viewer
Google docs will now open your PDF's

[craigevil]

Docs PDF/PowerPoint Viewer (by Google) - Google Chrome extension gallery : https://chrome.google.com/extensions/de ... medengocbn

Chrome has a pdf plugin

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Chrome PDF Viewer
Portable Document Format
Name:	Chrome PDF Viewer
Description:	Portable Document Format
Version:	
Priority:	0
Location:	/opt/google/chrome/libpdf.so 

[gradinaruvasile]

The Chrome pdf plugin rip-off is better. The chrome pdf plugin is faster (albeit basic) and it has copy-paste. The online viewer usually renders pages slowly (first blurred then it gets sharper) and it doesnt even have a copy-paste function.
I just installed the Chrome dev version and thats it (it installs the repository automatically with it). I dont think that Chrome has more stuff in it (compared to chromium) besides the flash, pdf plugins and maybe the h264 codec (not sure). I dont think that it has other privacy problems than Chromium itself. But i still like the Chromium logo better...

[Codfather]

Yes, I also find it odd that it's not included in the Chromium version by default as it was by my understanding developed by the chromium guys, and should therefore be open source. They did this to work around all the problems with trying to launch either evince or adobes PDF reader. It might be an Adobe license issue, but I don't know.
I take a slightly different approach, and just have chromium and goggle chrome dev installed on my workstation, and just copy the libpdf.so from /opt/google/chrome to /use/lib/chromium-browser. I also copy over the other .so files which work and the new google apps in the resources dir.
It's good to see that a few of the main distros are looking to include stable versions of chromium in their repos, as I prefer the fully open source version to having to use the Google version, choice is good . Here's hoping that this will always be possible and the two versions don't start to drift to far apart.

[gradinaruvasile]

I just tested the latest Chromium build and the pdf viewer doesnt work right - it shows the pdf, but no interaction is possible (no text selector cursor, no options in the lower right corner. Maybe they just messed up something temporarily. Chrome dev version works well.

[gradinaruvasile]

Now the pdf plugin works again on Chromium. Guess it was a temporary problem...

[yudith]

Thanks for the post. I also don't understand why they can't include it into chromium.
Would be really nice.

So thanks again, I love this plugin.