Hello,

I have looked at the other posts on Acrobat reader not installing in RH 8 and can't find a solution. I have RH 9.

I successuflly installed Acrobat Reader 5.0.6 from RPMs on the GURU site(http://www.gurulabs.com/downloads.html). Both installs were successful by simply double clicking wthin the GNOME GUI.

I can open Reader through both my browser and the command line but when I open PDFs they simply have grey lines where the text should be.

I have tried the env changes that are specified in other posts such as:


LANG=C acroread

and this doesn't work. I am a newbie and prefer to used RPM's for ease of removing. It looks like there are posts to do it with a tar file though:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hlight=Acrobat

One more thing: Is there a way to make a desktop Icon for Acrobat once I get it installed correctly? I tried the "acroread -inconic" command and it briefly opens Acrobat but no icon appears.


Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thank You in advance.

I don't know the specific answer to your question but I would guess that the problem lies in the ara of fonts? See if you can figure out if you have the font installed that Adobe Reader needs.

On second thought try changing the magnification factor that Acrobat Reader is using. When you change magnification I think that you also change the font used.