Mark,
I've been using Acroread 4 for a couple of weeks. Unfortunately, it's the
package that came with SuSE 6.2, and I installed it with Yast, so I didn't
have to configure it. The only problem I've found is the Netscape plugin.
If I open a pdf file in NS, it kills Netscape dead. all windows, cle
IGLinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Problems with acrobat reader...
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> Has anyone gotten acrobat reader 4 for linux to work. I've d/l'ed several
> pdf files and one of two things happens: 1) It dumps core or 2) I get a
> message saying that an error occurred
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Mark Hattarki wrote:
> Has anyone gotten acrobat reader 4 for linux to work. I've d/l'ed several
> pdf files and one of two things happens: 1) It dumps core or 2) I get a
> message saying that an error occurred when parsing the page, then nothing.
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> Then I discovered that
This seems to be a fairly common problem. mine works. apparently
acroread is a libc5 program. That makes it odd that it works since I
don't recall installing libc5 at all and I didn't think RH 5.2 did it.
Anyways, run 'ldd acroread' and see if you find anything fishy.
Otherwise you can 'strace ./a
Has anyone gotten acrobat reader 4 for linux to work. I've d/l'ed several
pdf files and one of two things happens: 1) It dumps core or 2) I get a
message saying that an error occurred when parsing the page, then nothing.
Then I discovered that pdf files are actually text files, like postscript.