Re: NPAPI Plugins Future, re: Adobe Acrobat Plugin

On 10/9/2015 11:38 AM, Christian Rottler wrote:
> Hi everybody, are there any plans for  the Adobe Reader plugin
> ("nppdf32.dll" under Windows)?
The Acrobat NPAPI plugin will no longer be supported when NPAPI is removed.

>
> Quite some of our document workflows rely heavily on this plugin since our
> users get to see the metadata of a document alongside the PDF document.
> This is achieved by inline rendering instead of spawning a new Reader
> window. Furthermore, some (LifeCycle) forms just need Adobe Reader to
> render properly / produce the right results / barcodes.

There are multiple options here. You can use pdf.js. If there are 
reasons why pdf.js is not sufficient or has bugs, please make sure they 
are filed at bugzilla.mozilla.org and let me know the bug numbers. Adobe 
also has the option of writing a Firefox extension which renders PDFs 
inline.

--BDS