note: this is OBSOLETE
now you can do also with alien multilib packages and you need only the plugin stuff.

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going around I found many people keep doing pdf you can only open with adobe reader, so I managed (for my babe that has to read bad done pdfs of scientific magazines online, I should have sticked with okular refusing to read them) to get it working on slackware 64.
got stimulated by recent advisory on adobe reader so I packaged the newest version.

since adobe reader is a 32bit only application, to use this stuff you have to install first 32 bit compatibility libs kindly provided by fred emmott, and you need two additional compat libs that I packaged taking emmott's and pat's build scripts as examples, libxml2 and pixman.

packages are here.

if you want to test it, after having installed emmott's libraries, install all provided packages (.txz) with
feedback (so, if needed, I can fix things for myself also ) is much appreciated.

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/6936/acroplug64.gif

adobereader.SlackBuild, libpixman-compat32.SlackBuild, libxml2-compat32.SlackBuild, nspluginwrapper.SlackBuild

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for the adobe reader browser plugin to work you need also to install nspluginwrapper (can be useful for installing also other 32bit plugins) and, after installation of all the packages, run from a terminal
(autodiscovery with "nspluginwrapper -v -a -u" hasn't worked for me)
then restart the browser.

modified libxml2-compat32, (renaming this too) pixman-compat32 slackbuilds and rebuilt to leave away unneeded stuff.

EDIT: not needed anymore

This post made getting adobe reader 32-bit plugin working on Slackware 13 64-bit much easier for me. Thank you.

A couple of things to add:

1) The libxml2-compat32 and pixman-compat32 libs are included now, so no need to create them with convertpkg-compat32.

2) If you run into a problem with Adobe displaying squares instead of text and see an error about pango, do this:
cd /etc/pango/i486-slackware-linux
pango-querymodules > pango.modules
-pango-querymodules points to the 32-bit one, not the 64-bit one
-the mistake I made was creating pango.modules in /etc/pango instead of /etc/pango/i486-slackware-linux.
-found out that rebooting after installing multilibs will do this for you...shows up in the boot output.

3) I used the adobe reader slackbuild from slackbuilds.org without modification, and nspluginwrapper from http://gwenole.beauchesne.info//en/p...spluginwrapper. I created my own package for nspluginwrapper.