Acrobat Reader problem

Francois-Xavier 'FiX' KOWALSKI francois-xavier.kowalski at wanadoo.fr
Sun Apr 4 17:57:50 UTC 2004


Jose Kilpua wrote:

> I downloaded Acrobat Reader for Linux from Adobe. I installed it - no 
> errors.
> Now I try to use it (as user and as root) , it says Aborted. What I 
> should do, to get it running?
> I am using latest stable kernel 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl
> [jose at josehost bin]$ /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread 
> /home/jose/TSG03.pdf
> Warning: charset "UTF-8" not supported, using "ISO8859-1".
> Aborted


Acrobat Reader does not cope with non "C" locale. The following will fix 
your problem. Note that this is an Adobe-know problem, whose w/a is 
given in the acroread release notes.

env LANG=C acroread

br.

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Francois-Xavier "FiX" KOWALSKI





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