Why doesn't Chromium have "Chrome PDF Viewer" plugin?
Solution 1:
Because the PDF plugin is not free software, i.e. it can only be included with the non-free Google Chrome browser.
See http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=50852#c16 for a statement.
Solution 2:
tiax is correct but it can be pulled over from a Chrome install and used from within Chromium.
You just need to pull the libpdf.so file over and enable it in about:plugins
Solution 3:
You have two solutions that I can see here (applied to Ubuntu 11.10) [This was inspired by comments above and other sources I found]
- Install Chrome and then copy over *.so files which technically gets you around the legality issues
Here's how I did that...
- Close Chromium
- Download Chrome from Chrome distro
- Install it on your Ubuntu release
- cd /usr/lib/chromium-browser/
- sudo cp /opt/google/chrome/*.so .
- Start Chromium
Note: The new plugins never showed up in my extension listing but suddenly just started working properly. By copy all *.so you are getting support for Flash, FFMPEG, and PDF support.
If you want to copy each individual item here is a listing of them for you to hand pick.
- libffmpegsumo.so - ffmpeg
- libgcflashplayer.so - Flash
- libpdf.so - PDF
Solution 4:
Chromium now have a pdf viewer on chrome store based on pdf.js that works like a charm. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pdf-viewer/oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm