Thank you all for your responses, but I am not sure it is the PDF reader that is the problem. But I will try using epdfview and mupdfto see if I can get them working.
In my experience, I've found opening a document (PDF or otherwise) within the browser window to be bothersome, buggy and frustrating. I've normally found it far better to open outside the browser. The back/forward buttons, printing and searching are just some of the functions I've seen frustrations/issues with. Unless it embeds nicely within an HTML page, I've always avoided it. I also try to ensure it targets a new window/tab (to avoid the back/forward issues).
I tend to agree, and that was the way that I had it originally configured. But now I have management asking me to change it to where it runs more like IE, and have the PDF's open in the iFrame that is on the website. This will make it easier on our production floor to find the correct PDF, without having to continually close Xpdf every time they click on a link. This is partly a limitation of the website.
The website was originally built for IE, so we have had to make a bunch of changes so that it will even pull up anything in FF or Chrome. Eventually the website will be rewritten so that it is cross browser compatible but that is a couple of months out.
That said, I've never tried or seen it working within the browser on Linux.
I have been able to get FF in Ubuntu to open PDF's inline inside the browser. But that is using the mozpluggerrc plugin. But the problem that I have is I haven't been able to find a way to compile mozplugger on TC yet. I tried copying the mozpluggerrc from Ubuntu (32 and 64) over to my TC but I get the "doesn't match your architecture" error. I will try again today to try and actually compile mozplugger from source on TC as I think that may solve my problem.
So I installed M4 and GCC which were prereqs for mozplugger. But when I run ./configure I receive the following error:
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in /home/tc/Downloads/mozplugger-1.14.3:
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
Then when checking config.log I think it is erroring out at:
configure:2622: checking whether the C compiler works
configure:2644: gcc conftest.c >&5
gcc: error trying to exec 'as': execvp: no such file or directory
I havn't taken a look at .configure to see if I can change it to where it runs in TC. To be quite honest I don't think my scripting skills are up to par to change it to fix it, but I will at least try. If you have any suggestions on getting it compiled, I am all ears.
Your issue with extracting the .lzma is probably that you didn't download the needed extensions to handle the decompression first.
I did find the problem with this yesterday. I had made a dumb mistake and did not install the full tar.tcz. Once I did that I had full functionality again.
Any other suggestions would be greatly appreaciated. My last resort will be to attempt to use a FF addon or plugin that converts PDF's to HTML, but I am unsure how well that would work, and that seems kind of like a poor way of doing it.