Turn off "beyond adobe reader" window

Marel · 11-04-2007, 10:05 AM

I have installed new Adobe Reader 8.1.1. Every time at startup it shows a window with title "Beyond Adobe Reader". In this windows there is a check box "do not show at startup", but it is not working and i cannot turn it off. Is there any help?

I am using 32bit version of Adobe Reader 8.1.1 on Debian Etch. It can run because i have ia32-libs (2.2) and ia32-libs-gtk (16.2 from Ubuntu) installed. I tried with ia32-libs 1.19 also, but same thing.

bathory · 11-06-2007, 02:47 AM

Did you try removing ~/.adobe/Acrobat/8.0 and then restart and configure Reader, to see if it works?
If you did it and it the problem still exists then you can ditch "Beyond Adobe Reader" by editing the file ~/.adobe/Acrobat/8.0/Preferences/reader_prefs (make a backup first just in case).
Search for the line that contains "ServerSettings":

Quote:

/ServerSettings [/c <<>>]

and add the following right after it:

Code:

>>]
/Downtown [/c <<        /DontShowAtLaunch [/b true]

Hope that helps.

Marel · 11-11-2007, 10:21 AM

Here is my reader_prefs file. It does not contain ServerSettings line. Can I create it?

Code:

<</AVConversionToPDF [/c << /Settings [/c <<>>]
>>]
/AVDisplay [/c <<   /SmoothScroll [/b false]
    /SmoothZooming [/b false]
    /Use2DGPU [/b false]
>>]
/AVGeneral [/c <<   /Dockables [/c <<>>]
    /LastExitNormal [/b true]
    /ShowHorizontalScrollbar [/b false]
    /ShowKeyPalette [/b false]
    /Toolbars [/c <<        /Overrides [/c <<>>]
>>]
>>]
/AVPrivate [/c <<   /ChooseLangAtStartup [/b false]
    /EULAAcceptanceTime [/i 1194797904]
    /SplashDisplayedAtStartup [/b true]
    /UnixLanguageStartup [/i 4542037]
    /showEULA [/b false]
>>]
/App_Frame [/c <<   /bottom_border [/i 5]
    /left_border [/i 5]
    /right_border [/i 5]
    /top_border [/i 26]
>>]
/Originals [/c <<   /ProofingSpace [/s (U.S. Web Coated \(SWOP\) v2)]
>>]
/PrefsDialog [/c << /LastPrefsPanel [/a /kBrowserAndInetPrefs]
>>]
/Private [/c <<>>]
/SDI [/c << /MaximizeNextDocument [/b false]
    /NullDocBottom [/i 955]
    /NullDocLeft [/i 100]
    /NullDocMaximized [/b false]
    /NullDocRight [/i 1114]
    /NullDocTop [/i 100]
>>]
/Selection [/c <<   /DefaultSelect [/a /Select]
>>]
/UnixBrowserPrefs [/c <<    /BrowserDir [/s (/opt/mozilla-bin-1.8b1)]
>>]
/UnixProxyPreferences [/c <<    /IsDirectConnection [/i 1]
    /ProxyName [/s ()]
    /ProxyPort [/i 1080]
>>]
/UnixRegisteredFonts [/c << /Folders [/s (/home/mr/psres\n/home/mr/fonts\n/usr/psres\n/usr/share/fonts\n/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts\n/usr/local/share/fonts\n/home/mr/.fonts\n/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d\n/opt/ttf\n/opt/ttfyu\n/opt/cir\n/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc\n)]
>>]
/unixAppSizePreferences [/c <<  /unixAppOpenMaximizedPreference [/b true]
>>]
>>

bathory · 11-12-2007, 02:02 AM

Quote:

Here is my reader_prefs file. It does not contain ServerSettings line. Can I create it?

Did you first try to remove ~/adobe/Acrobat to see if you can recreate it correctly? As for the above line, I don't think that you can create it, but I guess you can add the "Downtown .." line just above "/Originals ..". So you file should look like this:

Code:

]
...
   /top_border [/i 26]
>>]
/Downtown [/c <<        /DontShowAtLaunch [/b true]
>>]
/Originals [/c <<   /ProofingSpace [/s (U.S. Web Coated \(SWOP\) v2)]
>>]
...

Marel · 11-12-2007, 09:44 AM

It works! Thank you.

I tried to remove the dir, but that didn't help. It first complains about not finding libgtkembedmoz library. When I change the path to corect value and restart Reader, it shows "Beyond" window, and then i cannot turn it off.