If you wish you can set this to Preview in Firefox, however, this means PDF-XChange Editor and all of its features will be unavailable until you save the PDF-Document and open it directly within the PDF-XChange Editor. The best setting for PDF files is to use PDF-XChange Editor. Use these settings to determine the manner in which Mozilla Firefox handles the listed content. Scroll down to the Applications section:ģ. Open Firefox and press F10 to enable the Menu Toolbar, then click Options in the Tools submenu:Ģ. Check out this page and click on the + Add to Firefox option to install it.
The Firefox PDF Viewer add-on gives you an effective PDF document viewer for the browser. However, you can still open PDF documents in Firefox. Resolutionįollow the steps below to determine the manner in which Firefox handles PDF files and other content:ġ. The Firefox browser does not include any built-in options with which to open PDF documents. Therefore, XFA-based PDF forms do not open in later versions of Firefox and Chrome. Therefore, PDFs opening in PDF-XChange Editor is the correct setup. The built-in PDF viewer introduced with Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome do not support XFA-based PDF forms. Why do they open in PDF-XChange Editor instead? Cause:įirefox no longer offers support for NPAPI plugins, which means it is not possible to view PDFs in that browser as the relevant plugin for PDF-XChange Editor does not support it. It's not a real problem for me practically as I have actually managed to install Adobe Acrobat Reader 9 (BTW I am, however, afraid this ancient version is going to start having problems with opening new files of this kind soon) on Xubuntu 15.10 a reasonably tidy way by unpacking the old Ubuntu DEB package, putting the necessary files to a subdirectory in /opt and editing the Reader's launch scripts but I believe it's a pretty serious issue for using Ubuntu in commercial/academy/government environments so there is to be a more proper way.Documents open in PDF-XChange Editor when I click on PDF links inside Firefox. How are such files meant to be opened on Ubuntu given the official Adobe Acrobat Reader package is deprecated? When you try to open these files in an alternative PDF viewer, then you will see this error message. Ĭertain PDF files (dynamic XFA forms) created in Adobe LiveCycle can only be opened in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat. įor more assistance with Adobe Reader visit. You can upgrade to the latest version of Adobe Reader for Windows®, Mac, or Linux® by visiting.
If this message is not eventually replaced by the proper contents of the document, your PDF viewer may not be able to display this type of document.
When I try to open the PDF file I need it looks this way (I have tried Evince, Chrome and Firefox), saying Please wait.
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