is there anyone who is aware of cases where acroread fails to start on 2005le? i urpmi-ed the rpm from adobe.com and it installed without any error message. then, when i double click a pdf file, the ititial logo and messages appear it is loading files... and it all disappears. the same thing happens when i type acroread from a console. it does not reach the first registration page. nevertheless, when i type acroread -version in a console, it returns 7.0.0 and finishes normally. i am wondering it may be an incompatibility with the glibc that comes with 2005le. any idea? such as skipping the registration process?

I've never tried to use acroread, but there are other programs that you can use for the same purpose. to name a couple, there's kpdf (comes in the KDE graphics package), gpdf (for gnome, in the gpdf package), or xpdf (quite generic, comes in the xpdf package).

Hi,

I had this problem with mandrake 10.1. In my case, SCIM has conflict with acroread. Try running acroread like this:

>scim -f x11 -c simple -ns socket -d
>export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM
>export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim
>acroread

What version of Adobe Reader are you using. I downloaded the 7.x rpm and it works fine on 2005LE.

thanks goudman and cawwt,

but i do not think it is scim conflict for two reasons.

it is very true that scim in mandrake 10.1 causes problems, and that is why i moved to 2005le. with 10.1, however, it was not only acroread but firefox and thunderbird that were affected in my case. 2005le by contrast does not have an issue with firefox/thunderbird, suggesting the nature of problems of acroread is different between 10.1 and 2005le.

second, apps on 10.1 did not terminate by themselves unless forcefully terminated, whereas acroread on 2005le does not hung up forever but terminates prematurely. i.e. symptoms are different.

as for goudman's suggestion, i will need to use acroread since other methods are not perfect replacements especially in terms of font handling in my case, and it is not acceptable if it is not perfect when it comes to daily work. it may be just ok for english documents, but also i recently read an interview of gael duval who welcomed the release of reader 7 and i agree wit that argument...

thanks redazz,

it is adobereader_enu-7.0.7-2.i386.rpm that i installed. is there any log file that i could check?

If you start it in a console, there should be an error printed on screen.

Im also having issues with mozilla and acroread, mozilla runs but is extremly slow to draw on the screen, it dosent seem to use much cpu time or memory. It seems like a font,gtk or X issue. I tried installing firfox but as soon as i click the first continue button it crashes with a core file. Ive just tried installing the acroread rpm from adobe but it just starts the splash screen and closes with no exit.
Im running mandrake 10.1




UPDATE.......
Ive just tried this as sugested above by cawwt
export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM
export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim
acroread

now acroread works and i managed to install and run firfox aswell.

UPDATE 2....

I think ive figured out why this happend to me, the other day i urpme'd the scim package because the icon on my task bar annoyed me and i dint see a need for chinese input as i cant read or write chinese ... ooops i guess ill reinstall it.

hi reddazz and tgmtgm,

thanks for comments, i found that acroread shell script is excuting the acroread executable in the follwoing directory and that finally gave me an error message;

@localhost bin]$ pwd
/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/intellinux/bin
@localhost bin]$ ./acroread
./acroread: error while loading shared libraries: libBIB.so: cannot open sharedobject file: No such file or directory
@localhost bin]$ ls ../lib/libBIB* -la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 5 6 13:24 ../lib/libBIB.so -> libBIB.so.1.1*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 287868 3 28 12:41 ../lib/libBIB.so.1.1*

i do not understand why it is failing to recognise libBIB, any idea?

I would have a look at this part of the acrobat startup script, my guess would be that the script doesnt know where that library file is, just add the directory to the list, and see if it works

from "/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin/acroread"...........................

intellinux)
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="`prepend "$ACRO_INSTALL_DIR/$ACRO_CONFIG/lib:$ACRO_INSTALL_DIR/$ACRO_CONFIG/sidecars" "$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"`"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
;;

Try creating a symlink from libBIB.so.1.1 to libBIB.so.

hi cawwt,

it works!! if i add a single line in the acroread script, as you suggested,
export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim
could you kindly tell me how it works?
thank you very much indeed,
cheers

I had the same problem when trying to install from the tarball.
When I instead tried to install the rpm:
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader...0.0-2.i386.rpm
on fc3 it refused because i didnt have libstdc++.so.5 installed. So I used yum to install it:
Then my acroread rpm installed just fine, and ran just fine.

Decidedly,

gmax

Hi all,
You may use rpm or tarball, but have the package

libstdc++5

installed!! you may urpmi it too as
urpmi libstdc++.so.5
This equivalent to fedora's compatibility lib listed above.

Lev

Still it doesn't work for me.

After typing "acroread" the reader seems to start, but then it vanishes again.

I have installed the reader on my FC3 computer using AdobeReader_enu-7.0.0-2.i386.rpm

Help would be appreciated.
Thanks