# Launch pdf file

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/launch-pdf-file/22940>\
**Category:** SLED Applications\
**Created:** [August 7, 2012, 9:20pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/launch-pdf-file/22940 "2012-08-07T21:20:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![scottjsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@scottjsn](https://forums.suse.com/u/scottjsn)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 9:20pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/launch-pdf-file/22940/1 "2012-08-07T21:20:59Z")

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Installed SLED 11 R2. Browser FF 10 (FF for SUSE 11) When a document has a hyperlink for a pdf file, click on it, the pdf file is not launched.

What could be wrong?

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**Author:** ![Arnaudk93](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@Arnaudk93](https://forums.suse.com/u/Arnaudk93)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 8:57am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/launch-pdf-file/22940/2 "2012-08-08T08:57:34Z")

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[QUOTE=scottjsn;6100]Installed SLED 11 R2. Browser FF 10 (FF for SUSE 11) When a document has a hyperlink for a pdf file, click on it, the pdf file is not launched.

What could be wrong?[/QUOTE]  
I don’t have a Firefox in english. So I may be wrong.  
If you look into the Firefox settings, “Applications” tab, do you have application/pdf and application/x-pdf configured, associated with Mozplugger or Acrobat Reader ?

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**Author:** ![mikewillis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@mikewillis](https://forums.suse.com/u/mikewillis)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 10:21am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/launch-pdf-file/22940/3 "2012-08-08T10:21:22Z")

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Didn’t you already start a thread about this? [http://forums.suse.com/showthread.php?1356-Open-a-link-to-launch-PDF](http://forums.suse.com/showthread.php?1356-Open-a-link-to-launch-PDF)

Do you have Adobe Reader installed? If you do, then in Firefox check what Arnaudk93 suggested. Also if you type `about:plugins` in to the location field, is Adobe Reader listed? (It might be listed as acroread, I don’t have a machine with Adobe Reader install on to hand right now.)

You say the PDF doesn’t get opened, what does happen?