I installed the latest versin of acrobat reader for linux (506) on RH 8.0 and when I run the command :
/usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread
I get the following error:
Warning: charset "UTF-8" not supported, using "ISO8859-1".
Aborted
and the program doesn't run, any ideas?
thanx in advance

Check with redhat.com for the same app in rpm.

what's your system's language and the reader's?

didn't find an rpm package of acrobat reader 5.
both are in english.

Hah, I believe you have to hunt it to the kernel. In kernel configuration there is support for Unicode character set, it should be loaded as module or builtin, this is in filesystem->native language support.

Why not just use KGhostView (if you have it)?

Alt+F2 Then `kghostview`

--Mark

Or just run it from a console (xterm, konsole, you name it). Alt-F2 is a KDE specific thing. There are many different pdf viewers under Linux: xpdf, ghostview, kghostview to name just a few. You don't even need the Adobe stuff to make pdf files under Linux. Have a go at the other pdf viewers, they're really quite good!

Hi,

just go there:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/l...ase-notes/x86/

Basically you need to tell the program that your env for lang is C:

bash$ env LANG=C acroread

and this works.

Cheers,

Filippo

I saw this good info here about this language locale issue with Acrobat 5.

I wrote this quickie script so I could launch arcoread from the helper
applications in Netscape.

Save the lines below as arrh8. I put this file in /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin

---------------------------------------------------------


#! /bin/bash

env LANG=C /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread $1

----------------------------------------------------------

Make the file executable (as root)

chmod 755 arrh8
chown bin.bin arrh8

Then add the following info to your browser config to launch arcroread
when you click on a pdf.

(the following is for Netscape 7 - Mozilla should be similar)

Go down the menu path Edit | Preferences | Navigator | Helper Applications

Click "New Type"

Description of Type: PDF files
File Extension: pdf
Mime type: application/pdf
Application to use: /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/arrh8

Acrobat 5 should now launch when you click on a pdf file.

Hope this helps.

I got round this one by installing version 4.05 which runs fine and has pretty well the same features as 5.0 and 5.05.

I'm still not impressed generally by the way Linux handles pdfs. (Why isn't xpdf as good as Acrobat ??)

Thanks to dwains and the rest who helped me get Acrobat Reader 5 running under Red Hat 8. You are great.

One advantage of Adobe's PDF reader versus otherwise fine readers like xpdf or kghostview is the former's ability to search PDF files for strings. Another is the "Fit Width" and "Fit Visible" viewing modes, which tend to produce reasonable size type automatically, without any need to zoom.

--Jamie

to get Acrobat reader 5 to work with redhat 8, try this
env LANG=C /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread

I had this same problem. Thanks for the correction.

If you like to open pdfs from KDE or Gnome, add double quotes around $1.

env LANG=C /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread "$1"

> env LANG=C /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread
>

Stupid question...

How to do that in csh /tcsh?

thanks

edit the the acroread shell script in /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin directory and 2 lines @ the top of the script.

heres what the top of the file looks like

#!/bin/sh
#

ver=5.0
install_dir=/usr/local/Acrobat5/Reader

then you add these lines

LANG=en_US
export LANG

so your script should look like

#!/bin/sh
#
LANG=en_US
export LANG
ver=5.0
install_dir=/usr/local/Acrobat5/Reader