Acrobat Reader problem

duncan brown duncanbrown at email.com
Mon Apr 5 13:44:03 UTC 2004


i may have missed this before, but why aren't you using the GPL acrobad readers?  xpdf and gpdf (xpdf is more feature happy, gpdf's newer version that ships with fc2 has the features that xpdf has, but the fc1 gpdf is kind of stripped down.)

-d


----- Original Message -----
From: Murali P <linuxmurali_48 at yahoo.co.in>
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 11:03:22 +0100 (BST)
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader problem

>  --- A Davis <esai at comporium.net> wrote: > On Sun,
> 2004-04-04 at 13:00, Jose Kilpua wrote:
> > > Hi everyone !
> > > 
> > > 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
> > > [jose at josehost bin]$
> > > 
> > > Ciao,
> > > Jose
> Hello
> I had the same problem which was solved in the list
> some time ago.THe solution lies in copying the
> following script named Acroread.sh to the directory
> "Acrobat5" :
> 
>   ' #!/bin/bash
>    ## $(HOME)/bin/acroread
>    export LANG=en_US
>    export LC_ALL=en_US
>    #/usr/local/Acrobat4/bin/acroread $*
>    /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread $* 
> This works well.Please try out.
> 
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