On Friday 13 February 2004 07:28 pm, Erylon Hines wrote:
> On Friday 13 February 2004 11:25 am, JoeHill wrote:
> > On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 00:14:18 -0500
> >
> > mcoady disseminated the following:
> > > Has anyone using Mandrake 9.2 succeeded in installing Adobe Acrobat
> > > Reader. Somehow the linux-ar-405.tar.gz program has defeated everything
> > > I've tried.
> >
> > GPDF is pretty nice. Just:
> >
> > urpmi gpdf
> >
> > Free, and Open Source.
>
> Unfortunately, GPDF doesn't handle some Adobe stuff very well.  One site I
> go to where I need to download forms in *.pdf has the forms formatted
> crossways across the page (in booklet form), and GPDF simply will not print
> these correctly.  The "real" Acrobat does fine with them, so it could be a
> printer setting in GPDF, but if it is I can't find it.
>
> And to answer mcoady's question, yes Acroread 5.05 installed fine on 9.2
> for me, via the tarball and the ./INSTALL script, so I can say that version
> 5 works, anyway.
>
> e

This isn't detected as a package for my urpmi. What mirror are you using?


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