On Sun, 4 Nov 2018, Max Pyziur wrote:
On Fri, 2 Nov 2018, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Nov 2018 19:17:27 +0100 Markus Schönhaber
> <fedora-users(a)list-post.mks-mail.de> wrote:
>
>> Ger Van Dijck, Fri, 02 Nov 2018 14:32:43 +0100:
>>
>>> The Acrobat Reader does not funktionate anymore : So I tried to reinstall
>>> it with AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm .
>>>
>>> I get the message "build transaction failure , conflicting requests ;
>>> nothing provides libidn.so.11 needed by AcrobatReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 .
>>>
>>> How can I solve this problem ? _
>>
>> You can solve this problem by not using this ancient, unsupported piece
>> of software which contains a lot of unpatched security bugs.
>>
>> There are quite a few PDF readers available in the Fedora repositories
>> (Okular, Evince, MuPDF, …) you can choose from. Very likely there's
>> already one installed that came with your DE. Otherwise, pick the one
>> that suits you best.
>
> Hi,
>
> I agree that choosing an OSS pdf viewer is the best. However is there a
> viewer that can handle animation? This is the only reason I sometimes use
> acroread.
>
> An example of what I am talking about is in this file (created by LaTeX):
> there is a file in there called stadoc.pdf which has the animation on
> Page 5, Movie 1.
>
>
https://wol-prod-cdn.literatumonline.com/pb-assets/assets/20491573/Stat_A...
>
> When I try to read it in evince or okular, in the first case, nothing
> happens with the animation. In the case of okular, I get a blank gray
> square where the animation is. (All this with F28: I do not know if
> upgrading F29 will fix that in the sense that if there is an upgrade to
> evince or okular.)
Joining the chorus of those who use AdobeReader, two benefits:
- Adobe has tabs rather than individual windows in order to view several
documents at once;
- Adobe's save-as-text function sometimes works better than pdftotext; since
there is no standardization of pdf files, sometimes one tool renders the text
better than the other (YMMV)
I managed to install AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm and it works
correctly.
First:
dnf install libidn1.34-1.34-1.fc29.i686
Then,
rpm -ivh --force AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm
YMMV & fyi,
Max Pyziur
pyz(a)brama.com
Thanks,
Max
> Thanks,
> Ranjan