problems running Acrobat Reader 5

[Steffan Jacobs]

Steffan Jacobs wrote:

> Mirko Streckenbach wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> Has anybody gotten Acrobat Reader 5.08 to work? It crashes
>> here on several occasions:
>>
>> 1. Crashes with "Abort" on splash screen and about box (fixable by
>> setting the locales to non-utf8 variants)
>>
>> 2. Hangs oder crashes when opening a document, pressing ctrl-f,
>> entering a search term which is not in the document, after closing
>> the dialog where is says "not found".
>>
>> The first bug of course is easily handled by modifying the startup
>> script, but the second bug is really annoying and makes the problem
>> practically unusable.
>>
>>
>> I've tried setting LD_ASSUME_KERNEL to the various values and running
>> it with libraries from RedHat 7.1 where the same binary works fine but
>> none of this helped.
>>
>>
>> Acrobat Reader 4.05 does not have this problem, however there are some
>> security issues with this version only fixed in 5.x.
>>
>> xpdf/gpdf/gv are no real alternatives, as they still have problems
>> displaying certain documents and miss some convenience features
>> (thumbnails etc.).
>>
>> I'd be very thankful for any hint how to solve this problem.
>>
>>
>> Yours,
>> Mirko Streckenbach
>>
>>
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>>  
>>
> Are you using the standard version from Acrobat?
> It seems to work fine for me (after setting LANG=C in the 
> startup-script) and I'm using the rpm from:
> http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/ASP/contribs/9/i386/acroread-5.08-0.9asp.i386.html. 
>
> Maybe that one will work better for you
>
> Regards,
> Steffan Jacobs <steffanjacobs at wanadoo.nl>
>
Correction on me:
The second does also happen here, it 's probably just a bug, hope you 
can live with it until a new version comes out and it's hopefully fixed.