On 29/06/14 07:23 PM, Mickey wrote:
On 06/29/2014 05:48 PM, JD wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Stephen Morris
> <samorris(a)netspace.net.au <mailto:samorris@netspace.net.au>> wrote:
>
> On 06/30/2014 04:23 AM, Temlakos wrote:
>> On 06/29/2014 11:16 AM, Mickey wrote:
>>> yum -y localinstall AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm
>>>
>>> Yum does install AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm but when I
>>> run the command acroread the Adobereader won't start and nothing
>>> shows in /var/log/messages.
>>
>> I think it's because the name of the command is now changed. No
>> longer "acroread" but "AdobeReader." Note: that's
case-sensitive.
>>
>> "Acrobat" is now reserved for the PDF /editor/.
>>
>> And by the way: the latest version is more than a year old.
>>
>> Where can we find a side-by-side feature table for Adobe Reader
>> v. Okular, or whatever the favored PDF viewer is for Gnome?
>>
>> Temlakos
>>
> Hi,
> If the rpm being installed is the one supplied by Adobe, the
> command provided is "acroread". On my system the rpm installed its
> files into /opt/Adobe, check that the acroread file is executable
> and that you have read/write access to all files/folders within
> that path. I had an issue with acroread, whereby when I ran it, it
> produced a dialog complaining of a file read error and wouldn't
> run, I also received the same error when I clicked on widgets to
> add them to my development project in Windowbuilder within
> Eclipse. This error turned out to be a corrupt profile in
> ~/.adobe/Acrobat which, when I deleted that directory, and acrobat
> recreated it resolved my problems.
>
> regards,
> Steve
>
>
> Forget all about adobe pdf readers
>
> Run
>
> yum -y install evince
>
> and be done with it.
>
> On my machine:
>
>
> yum list evince
> Installed Packages
> evince.x86_64 3.10.3-1.fc20 @fedora
>
>
My problem is that when I get on to the Boy Scouts of America BSA all
their forms are in pdf and they require AdobeReader .
I went to the Boy Scouts of America website using Chrome...and all
their PDF's loaded and displayed properly in Chromes built-in PDF reader.
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