yum -y localinstall AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm
Yum does install AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm but when I run the command acroread the Adobereader won't start and nothing shows in /var/log/messages.
On 06/29/2014 11:16 AM, Mickey wrote:
yum -y localinstall AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm
Yum does install AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm but when I run the command acroread the Adobereader won't start and nothing shows in /var/log/messages.
I think it's because the name of the command is now changed. No longer "acroread" but "AdobeReader." Note: that's case-sensitive.
"Acrobat" is now reserved for the PDF /editor/.
And by the way: the latest version is more than a year old.
Where can we find a side-by-side feature table for Adobe Reader v. Okular, or whatever the favored PDF viewer is for Gnome?
Temlakos
On 06/29/2014 02:23 PM, Temlakos wrote:
On 06/29/2014 11:16 AM, Mickey wrote:
yum -y localinstall AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm
Yum does install AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm but when I run the command acroread the Adobereader won't start and nothing shows in /var/log/messages.
I think it's because the name of the command is now changed. No longer "acroread" but "AdobeReader." Note: that's case-sensitive.
"Acrobat" is now reserved for the PDF /editor/.
And by the way: the latest version is more than a year old.
Where can we find a side-by-side feature table for Adobe Reader v. Okular, or whatever the favored PDF viewer is for Gnome?
Temlakos
See if your distro has atril available. It's quite superior to okular. However, nothing is altogether as good as adobe. Those guys invented pdfs.
--doug
On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Doug dmcgarrett@optonline.net wrote:
On 06/29/2014 02:23 PM, Temlakos wrote:
On 06/29/2014 11:16 AM, Mickey wrote:
yum -y localinstall AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm
Yum does install AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm but when I run the command acroread the Adobereader won't start and nothing shows in /var/log/messages.
I think it's because the name of the command is now changed. No longer "acroread" but "AdobeReader." Note: that's case-sensitive.
"Acrobat" is now reserved for the PDF *editor*.
And by the way: the latest version is more than a year old.
Where can we find a side-by-side feature table for Adobe Reader v. Okular, or whatever the favored PDF viewer is for Gnome?
Temlakos
See if your distro has atril available. It's quite superior to okular. However, nothing is altogether as good as adobe. Those guys invented pdfs.
Instead, install evince pdf reader. it is in the Fedora repos.
On 06/29/2014 04:54 PM, Doug wrote:
On 06/29/2014 02:23 PM, Temlakos wrote:
On 06/29/2014 11:16 AM, Mickey wrote:
yum -y localinstall AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm
Yum does install AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm but when I run the command acroread the Adobereader won't start and nothing shows in /var/log/messages.
I think it's because the name of the command is now changed. No longer "acroread" but "AdobeReader." Note: that's case-sensitive.
"Acrobat" is now reserved for the PDF /editor/.
And by the way: the latest version is more than a year old.
Where can we find a side-by-side feature table for Adobe Reader v. Okular, or whatever the favored PDF viewer is for Gnome?
Temlakos
See if your distro has atril available. It's quite superior to okular. However, nothing is altogether as good as adobe. Those guys invented pdfs.
--doug
Nothing works on the Boy Scouts of America BSA website but AdobeReader.
All of their forms are in PDF.
Do you know where the pdf-to-text,RPM went to , for fedora 20 ?
On 06/30/2014 07:08 AM, Andrew Price wrote:
On 30/06/14 00:06, Mickey wrote:
Do you know where the pdf-to-text,RPM went to , for fedora 20 ?
$ rpm -qf `which pdftotext` poppler-utils-0.24.3-3.fc20.x86_64
Cheers, Andy
Once I open it as a text file and edit it, and save, how do I save it as a PDF.
On 06/30/2014 04:23 AM, Temlakos wrote:
On 06/29/2014 11:16 AM, Mickey wrote:
yum -y localinstall AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm
Yum does install AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm but when I run the command acroread the Adobereader won't start and nothing shows in /var/log/messages.
I think it's because the name of the command is now changed. No longer "acroread" but "AdobeReader." Note: that's case-sensitive.
"Acrobat" is now reserved for the PDF /editor/.
And by the way: the latest version is more than a year old.
Where can we find a side-by-side feature table for Adobe Reader v. Okular, or whatever the favored PDF viewer is for Gnome?
Temlakos
Hi, If the rpm being installed is the one supplied by Adobe, the command provided is "acroread". On my system the rpm installed its files into /opt/Adobe, check that the acroread file is executable and that you have read/write access to all files/folders within that path. I had an issue with acroread, whereby when I ran it, it produced a dialog complaining of a file read error and wouldn't run, I also received the same error when I clicked on widgets to add them to my development project in Windowbuilder within Eclipse. This error turned out to be a corrupt profile in ~/.adobe/Acrobat which, when I deleted that directory, and acrobat recreated it resolved my problems.
regards, Steve
On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Stephen Morris samorris@netspace.net.au wrote:
On 06/30/2014 04:23 AM, Temlakos wrote:
On 06/29/2014 11:16 AM, Mickey wrote:
yum -y localinstall AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm
Yum does install AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm but when I run the command acroread the Adobereader won't start and nothing shows in /var/log/messages.
I think it's because the name of the command is now changed. No longer "acroread" but "AdobeReader." Note: that's case-sensitive.
"Acrobat" is now reserved for the PDF *editor*.
And by the way: the latest version is more than a year old.
Where can we find a side-by-side feature table for Adobe Reader v. Okular, or whatever the favored PDF viewer is for Gnome?
Temlakos
Hi, If the rpm being installed is the one supplied by Adobe, the command provided is "acroread". On my system the rpm installed its files into /opt/Adobe, check that the acroread file is executable and that you have read/write access to all files/folders within that path. I had an issue with acroread, whereby when I ran it, it produced a dialog complaining of a file read error and wouldn't run, I also received the same error when I clicked on widgets to add them to my development project in Windowbuilder within Eclipse. This error turned out to be a corrupt profile in ~/.adobe/Acrobat which, when I deleted that directory, and acrobat recreated it resolved my problems.
regards, Steve
Forget all about adobe pdf readers
Run
yum -y install evince
and be done with it.
On my machine:
yum list evince Installed Packages evince.x86_64 3.10.3-1.fc20 @fedora
On 06/29/2014 05:48 PM, JD wrote:
On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Stephen Morris <samorris@netspace.net.au mailto:samorris@netspace.net.au> wrote:
On 06/30/2014 04:23 AM, Temlakos wrote:On 06/29/2014 11:16 AM, Mickey wrote:yum -y localinstall AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm Yum does install AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm but when I run the command acroread the Adobereader won't start and nothing shows in /var/log/messages.I think it's because the name of the command is now changed. No longer "acroread" but "AdobeReader." Note: that's case-sensitive. "Acrobat" is now reserved for the PDF /editor/. And by the way: the latest version is more than a year old. Where can we find a side-by-side feature table for Adobe Reader v. Okular, or whatever the favored PDF viewer is for Gnome? TemlakosHi, If the rpm being installed is the one supplied by Adobe, the command provided is "acroread". On my system the rpm installed its files into /opt/Adobe, check that the acroread file is executable and that you have read/write access to all files/folders within that path. I had an issue with acroread, whereby when I ran it, it produced a dialog complaining of a file read error and wouldn't run, I also received the same error when I clicked on widgets to add them to my development project in Windowbuilder within Eclipse. This error turned out to be a corrupt profile in ~/.adobe/Acrobat which, when I deleted that directory, and acrobat recreated it resolved my problems. regards, SteveForget all about adobe pdf readers
Run
yum -y install evince
and be done with it.
On my machine:
yum list evince Installed Packages evince.x86_64 3.10.3-1.fc20 @fedora
My problem is that when I get on to the Boy Scouts of America BSA all their forms are in pdf and they require AdobeReader .
Would you know where I can get the pdf-to-text.rpm, I could probably download the pdf's from BSA website and edit them with pdf-to-text.
On 29/06/14 07:23 PM, Mickey wrote:
On 06/29/2014 05:48 PM, JD wrote:
On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Stephen Morris <samorris@netspace.net.au mailto:samorris@netspace.net.au> wrote:
On 06/30/2014 04:23 AM, Temlakos wrote:On 06/29/2014 11:16 AM, Mickey wrote:yum -y localinstall AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm Yum does install AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm but when I run the command acroread the Adobereader won't start and nothing shows in /var/log/messages.I think it's because the name of the command is now changed. No longer "acroread" but "AdobeReader." Note: that's case-sensitive. "Acrobat" is now reserved for the PDF /editor/. And by the way: the latest version is more than a year old. Where can we find a side-by-side feature table for Adobe Reader v. Okular, or whatever the favored PDF viewer is for Gnome? TemlakosHi, If the rpm being installed is the one supplied by Adobe, the command provided is "acroread". On my system the rpm installed its files into /opt/Adobe, check that the acroread file is executable and that you have read/write access to all files/folders within that path. I had an issue with acroread, whereby when I ran it, it produced a dialog complaining of a file read error and wouldn't run, I also received the same error when I clicked on widgets to add them to my development project in Windowbuilder within Eclipse. This error turned out to be a corrupt profile in ~/.adobe/Acrobat which, when I deleted that directory, and acrobat recreated it resolved my problems. regards, SteveForget all about adobe pdf readers
Run
yum -y install evince
and be done with it.
On my machine:
yum list evince Installed Packages evince.x86_64 3.10.3-1.fc20 @fedora
My problem is that when I get on to the Boy Scouts of America BSA all their forms are in pdf and they require AdobeReader .
I went to the Boy Scouts of America website using Chrome...and all their PDF's loaded and displayed properly in Chromes built-in PDF reader.
On 06/29/2014 07:37 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
On 29/06/14 07:23 PM, Mickey wrote:
On 06/29/2014 05:48 PM, JD wrote:
On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Stephen Morris <samorris@netspace.net.au mailto:samorris@netspace.net.au> wrote:
On 06/30/2014 04:23 AM, Temlakos wrote:On 06/29/2014 11:16 AM, Mickey wrote:yum -y localinstall AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm Yum does install AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm but when I run the command acroread the Adobereader won't start and nothing shows in /var/log/messages.I think it's because the name of the command is now changed. No longer "acroread" but "AdobeReader." Note: that's case-sensitive. "Acrobat" is now reserved for the PDF /editor/. And by the way: the latest version is more than a year old. Where can we find a side-by-side feature table for Adobe Reader v. Okular, or whatever the favored PDF viewer is for Gnome? TemlakosHi, If the rpm being installed is the one supplied by Adobe, the command provided is "acroread". On my system the rpm installed its files into /opt/Adobe, check that the acroread file is executable and that you have read/write access to all files/folders within that path. I had an issue with acroread, whereby when I ran it, it produced a dialog complaining of a file read error and wouldn't run, I also received the same error when I clicked on widgets to add them to my development project in Windowbuilder within Eclipse. This error turned out to be a corrupt profile in ~/.adobe/Acrobat which, when I deleted that directory, and acrobat recreated it resolved my problems. regards, SteveForget all about adobe pdf readers
Run
yum -y install evince
and be done with it.
On my machine:
yum list evince Installed Packages evince.x86_64 3.10.3-1.fc20 @fedora
My problem is that when I get on to the Boy Scouts of America BSA all their forms are in pdf and they require AdobeReader .
I went to the Boy Scouts of America website using Chrome...and all their PDF's loaded and displayed properly in Chromes built-in PDF reader.
What and where is the Chrome built-in PDF reader, is it a extension or what.
When I use Chrome go onto the BSA website it tells me I must have AdobeReader-9 0r greater.
Can you edit the PDF's on their website ? To fill in spaces.
On 29/06/14 08:01 PM, Mickey wrote:
On 06/29/2014 07:37 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
On 29/06/14 07:23 PM, Mickey wrote:
On 06/29/2014 05:48 PM, JD wrote:
On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Stephen Morris <samorris@netspace.net.au mailto:samorris@netspace.net.au> wrote:
On 06/30/2014 04:23 AM, Temlakos wrote:On 06/29/2014 11:16 AM, Mickey wrote:yum -y localinstall AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm Yum does install AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm but when I run the command acroread the Adobereader won't start and nothing shows in /var/log/messages.I think it's because the name of the command is now changed. No longer "acroread" but "AdobeReader." Note: that's case-sensitive. "Acrobat" is now reserved for the PDF /editor/. And by the way: the latest version is more than a year old. Where can we find a side-by-side feature table for Adobe Reader v. Okular, or whatever the favored PDF viewer is for Gnome? TemlakosHi, If the rpm being installed is the one supplied by Adobe, the command provided is "acroread". On my system the rpm installed its files into /opt/Adobe, check that the acroread file is executable and that you have read/write access to all files/folders within that path. I had an issue with acroread, whereby when I ran it, it produced a dialog complaining of a file read error and wouldn't run, I also received the same error when I clicked on widgets to add them to my development project in Windowbuilder within Eclipse. This error turned out to be a corrupt profile in ~/.adobe/Acrobat which, when I deleted that directory, and acrobat recreated it resolved my problems. regards, SteveForget all about adobe pdf readers
Run
yum -y install evince
and be done with it.
On my machine:
yum list evince Installed Packages evince.x86_64 3.10.3-1.fc20 @fedora
My problem is that when I get on to the Boy Scouts of America BSA all their forms are in pdf and they require AdobeReader .
I went to the Boy Scouts of America website using Chrome...and all their PDF's loaded and displayed properly in Chromes built-in PDF reader.
What and where is the Chrome built-in PDF reader, is it a extension or what.
No, it's not an extension. AFAIK it's built-in to Chrome.
When I use Chrome go onto the BSA website it tells me I must have AdobeReader-9 0r greater.
That's strange. When I went there with Chrome I didn't get any warning.
Can you edit the PDF's on their website ? To fill in spaces.
Good question...which I can't answer. But in my experience many sites with PDF files you can fill in require...can I say it? Windows apps. :)
On 06/29/2014 05:10 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
On 06/30/2014 04:23 AM, Temlakos wrote:
On 06/29/2014 11:16 AM, Mickey wrote:
yum -y localinstall AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm
Yum does install AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm but when I run the command acroread the Adobereader won't start and nothing shows in /var/log/messages.
I think it's because the name of the command is now changed. No longer "acroread" but "AdobeReader." Note: that's case-sensitive.
"Acrobat" is now reserved for the PDF /editor/.
And by the way: the latest version is more than a year old.
Where can we find a side-by-side feature table for Adobe Reader v. Okular, or whatever the favored PDF viewer is for Gnome?
Temlakos
Hi, If the rpm being installed is the one supplied by Adobe, the command provided is "acroread". On my system the rpm installed its files into /opt/Adobe, check that the acroread file is executable and that you have read/write access to all files/folders within that path. I had an issue with acroread, whereby when I ran it, it produced a dialog complaining of a file read error and wouldn't run, I also received the same error when I clicked on widgets to add them to my development project in Windowbuilder within Eclipse. This error turned out to be a corrupt profile in ~/.adobe/Acrobat which, when I deleted that directory, and acrobat recreated it resolved my problems.
regards, Steve
I deleted the ~/.adobe/Acrobat directory and restarted acroread, and it attempts to run and then immediately shuts down.
On Sun, 2014-06-29 at 14:23 -0400, Temlakos wrote:
On 06/29/2014 11:16 AM, Mickey wrote:
yum -y localinstall AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm
Yum does install AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm but when I run the command acroread the Adobereader won't start and nothing shows in /var/log/messages.
Are you starting it from the desktop or from a terminal? If from the desktop, is there anything in ~/.xsession-errors?
I suspect if you start it from a terminal command line, you might get errors about missing libraries. Externally-packaged RPMs are notorious for not including complete lists of requirements, although the AdobeReader RPM does list a lot of them, so maybe it's not so flagrant an offender.
I think it's because the name of the command is now changed. No longer "acroread" but "AdobeReader." Note: that's case-sensitive.
"Acrobat" is now reserved for the PDF editor.
AFAICT, acroread is still the command.
$ rpm -qf `which acroread` AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486
I don't have a command starting with Ado*.
And by the way: the latest version is more than a year old.
Where can we find a side-by-side feature table for Adobe Reader v. Okular, or whatever the favored PDF viewer is for Gnome?
Temlakos
On 06/29/2014 06:52 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Sun, 2014-06-29 at 14:23 -0400, Temlakos wrote:
On 06/29/2014 11:16 AM, Mickey wrote:
yum -y localinstall AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm
Yum does install AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm but when I run the command acroread the Adobereader won't start and nothing shows in /var/log/messages.
Are you starting it from the desktop or from a terminal? If from the desktop, is there anything in ~/.xsession-errors?
I suspect if you start it from a terminal command line, you might get errors about missing libraries. Externally-packaged RPMs are notorious for not including complete lists of requirements, although the AdobeReader RPM does list a lot of them, so maybe it's not so flagrant an offender.
I think it's because the name of the command is now changed. No longer "acroread" but "AdobeReader." Note: that's case-sensitive.
"Acrobat" is now reserved for the PDF editor.
AFAICT, acroread is still the command.
$ rpm -qf `which acroread` AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486I don't have a command starting with Ado*.
And by the way: the latest version is more than a year old.
Where can we find a side-by-side feature table for Adobe Reader v. Okular, or whatever the favored PDF viewer is for Gnome?
Temlakos
No error message come up in ~/.xsession-errors
or
from the command line in terminal when running acroread.
On 06/29/2014 02:23 PM, Temlakos wrote:
On 06/29/2014 11:16 AM, Mickey wrote:
yum -y localinstall AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm
Yum does install AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm but when I run the command acroread the Adobereader won't start and nothing shows in /var/log/messages.
I think it's because the name of the command is now changed. No longer "acroread" but "AdobeReader." Note: that's case-sensitive.
"Acrobat" is now reserved for the PDF /editor/.
And by the way: the latest version is more than a year old.
Where can we find a side-by-side feature table for Adobe Reader v. Okular, or whatever the favored PDF viewer is for Gnome?
Temlakos
acroread is a good command, AdobeReader is not a good command
doing the acroread command , the Adobereader starts to load and immediately shuts down.
does any one know where I can find the pdf-to-text RPM ?
On 06/29/2014 04:02 PM, Mickey wrote:
doing the acroread command , the Adobereader starts to load and immediately shuts down.
If you do this from a terminal, do you get any errors. If so, please paste them into a reply, because they will probably mean something important to at least one of us.
On 06/29/2014 07:38 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 06/29/2014 04:02 PM, Mickey wrote:
doing the acroread command , the Adobereader starts to load and immediately shuts down.
If you do this from a terminal, do you get any errors. If so, please paste them into a reply, because they will probably mean something important to at least one of us.
No error messages from Terminal window or /var/log/messages or ~/.xsession.errors when running acroread,
Adobereader attemps to start and then shuts down.
On 06/30/14 07:56, Mickey wrote:
No error messages from Terminal window or /var/log/messages or ~/.xsession.errors when running acroread,
Adobereader attemps to start and then shuts down.
The only time I've ever seen this sort of thing happen is when a copy of the program was already running.
ps -eaf | grep acroread
On 06/30/14 08:30, Mickey wrote:
On 06/29/2014 07:58 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
ps -eaf | grep acroread
I did have a process running and I killed it, and ran acrored again got the same result, It attempted to start but shut down immediately.
OK.... But after it shutdown, is there once again an "acroread" running?
On 06/29/2014 08:35 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 06/30/14 08:30, Mickey wrote:
On 06/29/2014 07:58 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
ps -eaf | grep acroread
I did have a process running and I killed it, and ran acrored again got the same result, It attempted to start but shut down immediately.
OK.... But after it shutdown, is there once again an "acroread" running?
YES !
mickey 4904 4853 0 20:44 pts/2 00:00:00 grep --color=auto acroread
On 06/30/14 08:45, Mickey wrote:
YES !
mickey 4904 4853 0 20:44 pts/2 00:00:00 grep --color=auto acroread
No...
That is the grep finding the grep.
It would look something like this...
egreshko 22171 20317 6 08:49 ? 00:00:00 /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread
On 06/29/2014 08:50 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
egreshko 22171 20317 6 08:49 ? 00:00:00 /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread
after killing and running acroread again I'm not getting anything like this ;
egreshko 22171 20317 6 08:49 ? 00:00:00 /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread
I guess AdobeReader is being shutdown just as it starts, you can see a quick flash of the RED adobe start window and that is it.
On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 7:19 PM, Mickey binarynut@comcast.net wrote:
On 06/29/2014 08:50 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
egreshko 22171 20317 6 08:49 ? 00:00:00 /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/ intellinux/bin/acroread
after killing and running acroread again I'm not getting anything like this ;
egreshko 22171 20317 6 08:49 ? 00:00:00 /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/ intellinux/bin/acroread
I guess AdobeReader is being shutdown just as it starts, you can see a quick flash of the RED adobe start window and that is it.
Since you want a web pdf viewer/reader, then in Firefox, Click Tools -> Add-Ons
This opens the add-ons page. in the page's search bar, type PDF Viewer When it shows up, move the pointer to the box containing the PDF Viewer item, and click on + Add To Firefox
and restart firefox.
All done!
On 30 June 2014 04:49, JD jd1008@gmail.com wrote:
Since you want a web pdf viewer/reader, then in Firefox, Click Tools -> Add-Ons
This opens the add-ons page. in the page's search bar, type PDF Viewer When it shows up, move the pointer to the box containing the PDF Viewer item, and click on
- Add To Firefox
and restart firefox.
The problem with this, and Evince and all the others, is that Adobe Reader *is not just a viewer*. The others are viewers: you can read 99% of PDFs.
But PDFs are also used as *forms* which you must *fill in with your own data*. They can also be containers which can contain other embedded documents, including PDFs inside PDFs and MS/Libre Office documents *inside PDFs*.
The other FOSS readers cannot handle these.
So everyone, stop telling the OP to use alternatives. We all know that there are alternatives; they come preinstalled with Fedora.
On 06/30/2014 04:08 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
On 30 June 2014 04:49, JD jd1008@gmail.com wrote:
Since you want a web pdf viewer/reader, then in Firefox, Click Tools -> Add-Ons
This opens the add-ons page. in the page's search bar, type PDF Viewer When it shows up, move the pointer to the box containing the PDF Viewer item, and click on
- Add To Firefox
and restart firefox.
The problem with this, and Evince and all the others, is that Adobe Reader *is not just a viewer*. The others are viewers: you can read 99% of PDFs.
But PDFs are also used as *forms* which you must *fill in with your own data*. They can also be containers which can contain other embedded documents, including PDFs inside PDFs and MS/Libre Office documents *inside PDFs*.
The other FOSS readers cannot handle these.
So everyone, stop telling the OP to use alternatives. We all know that there are alternatives; they come preinstalled with Fedora.
Yes your right , the FOSS readers do not allow you to edit the pdf online and then print it out as a finished product.
On 06/30/14 09:19, Mickey wrote:
On 06/29/2014 08:50 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
egreshko 22171 20317 6 08:49 ? 00:00:00 /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread
after killing and running acroread again I'm not getting anything like this ;
egreshko 22171 20317 6 08:49 ? 00:00:00 /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread
I guess AdobeReader is being shutdown just as it starts, you can see a quick flash of the RED adobe start window and that is it.
Just wondering if is installed "correctly".
[egreshko@meimei ~]$ which acroread /usr/bin/acroread
[egreshko@meimei ~]$ file /usr/bin/acroread /usr/bin/acroread: symbolic link to `/opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin/acroread'
[egreshko@meimei ~]$ file /opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin/acroread /opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin/acroread: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable
[egreshko@meimei bin]$ file /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, stripped
and finally.... Ensure the readhat-lsb packages were installed and that both the 32 and 64 bit versions have been installed since acroread is a 32 bit application.
rpm -qa | grep redhat-lsb should show you a list.
On 06/30/14 13:23, Ed Greshko wrote:
and finally.... Ensure the readhat-lsb packages were installed and that both the 32 and 64 bit versions have been installed since acroread is a 32 bit application.
rpm -qa | grep redhat-lsb should show you a list.
Turns out the redhat-lsb packages are *not* required for the current version of Adobe Reader.
FWIW, I just installed Adobe Reader on a VM running F20/64bit and KDE. On initial start up you get an Adobe splash-screen and then a dialog box to accept their license. At this time the ~/.adobe directory is created and adobe reader is opened with a blank page since no pdf has been specified.
On 06/30/2014 04:25 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 06/30/14 13:23, Ed Greshko wrote:
and finally.... Ensure the readhat-lsb packages were installed and that both the 32 and 64 bit versions have been installed since acroread is a 32 bit application.
rpm -qa | grep redhat-lsb should show you a list.
Turns out the redhat-lsb packages are *not* required for the current version of Adobe Reader.
FWIW, I just installed Adobe Reader on a VM running F20/64bit and KDE. On initial start up you get an Adobe splash-screen and then a dialog box to accept their license. At this time the ~/.adobe directory is created and adobe reader is opened with a blank page since no pdf has been specified.
My problem is the
Adobe splash-screen flashes on and goes away just as fast, no other windows open.
On 06/30/2014 01:23 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 06/30/14 09:19, Mickey wrote:
On 06/29/2014 08:50 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
egreshko 22171 20317 6 08:49 ? 00:00:00 /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread
after killing and running acroread again I'm not getting anything like this ;
egreshko 22171 20317 6 08:49 ? 00:00:00 /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread
I guess AdobeReader is being shutdown just as it starts, you can see a quick flash of the RED adobe start window and that is it.
Just wondering if is installed "correctly".
[egreshko@meimei ~]$ which acroread /usr/bin/acroread
[egreshko@meimei ~]$ file /usr/bin/acroread /usr/bin/acroread: symbolic link to `/opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin/acroread'
[egreshko@meimei ~]$ file /opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin/acroread /opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin/acroread: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable
[egreshko@meimei bin]$ file /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, stripped
and finally.... Ensure the readhat-lsb packages were installed and that both the 32 and 64 bit versions have been installed since acroread is a 32 bit application.
rpm -qa | grep redhat-lsb should show you a list.
[mickey@localhost ~]$ which acroread /usr/bin/acroread
[mickey@localhost ~]$ file /usr/bin/acroread
/usr/bin/acroread: symbolic link to `/opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin/acroread'
[mickey@localhost ~]$ file /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, stripped
[mickey@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa | grep redhat-lsb
redhat-lsb-cxx-4.1-21.fc20.i686 redhat-lsb-submod-multimedia-4.1-21.fc20.i686 redhat-lsb-core-4.1-21.fc20.i686 redhat-lsb-printing-4.1-21.fc20.i686 redhat-lsb-4.1-21.fc20.i686 redhat-lsb-submod-security-4.1-21.fc20.i686 redhat-lsb-languages-4.1-21.fc20.i686 redhat-lsb-desktop-4.1-21.fc20.i686
If I do a /usr/bin/acroread The Red Adobereader window flashes on then goes away fast.
On 07/01/14 01:22, Mickey wrote:
[mickey@localhost ~]$ file /usr/bin/acroread
/usr/bin/acroread: symbolic link to `/opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin/acroread'
[mickey@localhost ~]$ file /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, stripped
Strange....
Your symbolic link points to an older location....
Try executing "/opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread " directly from the command line....
On 06/30/2014 05:53 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 07/01/14 01:22, Mickey wrote:
[mickey@localhost ~]$ file /usr/bin/acroread
/usr/bin/acroread: symbolic link to `/opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin/acroread'
[mickey@localhost ~]$ file /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, stripped
Strange....
Your symbolic link points to an older location....
Try executing "/opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread " directly from the command line....
/opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading shared libraries: libBIB.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
On 07/01/14 06:04, Mickey wrote:
On 06/30/2014 05:53 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 07/01/14 01:22, Mickey wrote:
[mickey@localhost ~]$ file /usr/bin/acroread
/usr/bin/acroread: symbolic link to `/opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin/acroread'
[mickey@localhost ~]$ file /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, stripped
Strange....
Your symbolic link points to an older location....
Try executing "/opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread " directly from the command line....
/opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading shared libraries: libBIB.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Never mind.... That won't work. I misread something on my system....and what I wrote earlier. I'll make my standard excuse. No coffee yet.... :-)
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Mickey binarynut@comcast.net wrote:
On 06/30/2014 05:53 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 07/01/14 01:22, Mickey wrote:
[mickey@localhost ~]$ file /usr/bin/acroread
/usr/bin/acroread: symbolic link to `/opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin/acroread'
[mickey@localhost ~]$ file /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/ intellinux/bin/acroread /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, stripped
Strange....
Your symbolic link points to an older location....
Try executing "/opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread " directly from the command line....
/opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading shared libraries: libBIB.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Sometimes, when I run into these situations, I find that I am on a 64 bit system, trying to run a 32 bit application, whose required libs are looked for in /usr/lib, instead of /usr/lib64, and are not found.
Just wondering if that is your situation too.
On 07/01/14 06:29, JD wrote:
Sometimes, when I run into these situations, I find that I am on a 64 bit system, trying to run a 32 bit application, whose required libs are looked for in /usr/lib, instead of /usr/lib64, and are not found.
Just wondering if that is your situation too.
That was a coffee deprived error on my part......
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Ed Greshko ed.greshko@greshko.com wrote:
On 07/01/14 06:29, JD wrote:
Sometimes, when I run into these situations, I find that I am on a 64 bit system, trying to run a 32 bit application, whose required libs are looked for in /usr/lib, instead of /usr/lib64, and are not found.
Just wondering if that is your situation too.
That was a coffee deprived error on my part......
But it could also be that you been drinkin' and been loafin' and been jitterin' due to doin' too much cafee-in' :) :)
I drink Vata Tea :)
On 06/30/2014 06:29 PM, JD wrote:
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Mickey <binarynut@comcast.net mailto:binarynut@comcast.net> wrote:
On 06/30/2014 05:53 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/01/14 01:22, Mickey wrote: [mickey@localhost ~]$ file /usr/bin/acroread /usr/bin/acroread: symbolic link to `/opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin/acroread' [mickey@localhost ~]$ file /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, stripped Strange.... Your symbolic link points to an older location.... Try executing "/opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread " directly from the command line.... /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading shared libraries: libBIB.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directorySometimes, when I run into these situations, I find that I am on a 64 bit system, trying to run a 32 bit application, whose required libs are looked for in /usr/lib, instead of /usr/lib64, and are not found.
Just wondering if that is your situation too.
No, I have a 32 bit system and a 32 bit (486) AdobeReader.rpm.
On 07/01/14 01:22, Mickey wrote:
[mickey@localhost ~]$ which acroread /usr/bin/acroread
[mickey@localhost ~]$ file /usr/bin/acroread
/usr/bin/acroread: symbolic link to `/opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin/acroread'
[mickey@localhost ~]$ file /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, stripped
[mickey@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa | grep redhat-lsb
redhat-lsb-cxx-4.1-21.fc20.i686 redhat-lsb-submod-multimedia-4.1-21.fc20.i686 redhat-lsb-core-4.1-21.fc20.i686 redhat-lsb-printing-4.1-21.fc20.i686 redhat-lsb-4.1-21.fc20.i686 redhat-lsb-submod-security-4.1-21.fc20.i686 redhat-lsb-languages-4.1-21.fc20.i686 redhat-lsb-desktop-4.1-21.fc20.i686
If I do a /usr/bin/acroread The Red Adobereader window flashes on then goes away fast.
OK.....
Give this a try.....
As root, edit /opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin/acroread and change the first line to read....
#!/bin/sh --verbose
Then run /opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin/acroread and supply the output. It is probably best to upload the output to http://fpaste.org/ and supply the url
On 06/30/2014 06:57 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 07/01/14 01:22, Mickey wrote:
[mickey@localhost ~]$ which acroread /usr/bin/acroread
[mickey@localhost ~]$ file /usr/bin/acroread
/usr/bin/acroread: symbolic link to `/opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin/acroread'
[mickey@localhost ~]$ file /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, stripped
[mickey@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa | grep redhat-lsb
redhat-lsb-cxx-4.1-21.fc20.i686 redhat-lsb-submod-multimedia-4.1-21.fc20.i686 redhat-lsb-core-4.1-21.fc20.i686 redhat-lsb-printing-4.1-21.fc20.i686 redhat-lsb-4.1-21.fc20.i686 redhat-lsb-submod-security-4.1-21.fc20.i686 redhat-lsb-languages-4.1-21.fc20.i686 redhat-lsb-desktop-4.1-21.fc20.i686
If I do a /usr/bin/acroread The Red Adobereader window flashes on then goes away fast.
OK.....
Give this a try.....
As root, edit /opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin/acroread and change the first line to read....
#!/bin/sh --verbose
Then run /opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin/acroread and supply the output. It is probably best to upload the output to http://fpaste.org/ and supply the url
Location:
On 07/01/14 07:28, Mickey wrote:
Location:
Well..... Everything appears to be as expected......
You can remove the --verbose entry added earlier. It seems strange and maybe unrelated to adobe itself.
What desktop are you running? GNOME, KDE?
Also, could you try adding a totally new user and logging in as the new user and trying the to run it?
http://www.winehq.org/ http://portableapps.com/
$ su -c "yum install wine-core.i686" $ wget -c http://download3.portableapps.com/portableapps/foxitreaderportable/FoxitRead... $ wine FoxitReaderPortable_6.2.0.0429.paf.exe $ wine ./FoxitReaderPortable/FoxitReaderPortable.exe
poma
On 06/30/2014 08:14 PM, poma wrote:
http://www.winehq.org/ http://portableapps.com/
$ su -c "yum install wine-core.i686" $ wget -c http://download3.portableapps.com/portableapps/foxitreaderportable/FoxitRead... $ wine FoxitReaderPortable_6.2.0.0429.paf.exe $ wine ./FoxitReaderPortable/FoxitReaderPortable.exe
poma
Poma Do you know if foxitreaderportable will let me edit the pdf online ?
I'm having problems when I go onto the Boy Scouts Of America BSA website to edit and print the forms online, which is what AdobeReader will let me do if would execute.
On 01.07.2014 02:36, Mickey wrote:
On 06/30/2014 08:14 PM, poma wrote:
http://www.winehq.org/ http://portableapps.com/
$ su -c "yum install wine-core.i686" $ wget -c http://download3.portableapps.com/portableapps/foxitreaderportable/FoxitRead... $ wine FoxitReaderPortable_6.2.0.0429.paf.exe $ wine ./FoxitReaderPortable/FoxitReaderPortable.exe
poma
Poma Do you know if foxitreaderportable will let me edit the pdf online ?
I'm having problems when I go onto the Boy Scouts Of America BSA website to edit and print the forms online, which is what AdobeReader will let me do if would execute.
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/Secure_PDF_Reader/forms.php
Besides there is a relatively old 32-bit linux version: $ su -c "yum install http://cdn01.foxitsoftware.com/pub/foxit/reader/desktop/linux/1.x/1.1/enu/Fo..." and "portable" $ wget -c http://cdn01.foxitsoftware.com/pub/foxit/reader/desktop/linux/1.x/1.1/enu/Fo... $ tar xf FoxitReader-1.1.0.tar.bz2 $ ./1.1-release/FoxitReader
poma
On 01.07.2014 03:54, poma wrote:
On 01.07.2014 02:36, Mickey wrote:
On 06/30/2014 08:14 PM, poma wrote:
http://www.winehq.org/ http://portableapps.com/
$ su -c "yum install wine-core.i686" $ wget -c http://download3.portableapps.com/portableapps/foxitreaderportable/FoxitRead... $ wine FoxitReaderPortable_6.2.0.0429.paf.exe $ wine ./FoxitReaderPortable/FoxitReaderPortable.exe
poma
Poma Do you know if foxitreaderportable will let me edit the pdf online ?
I'm having problems when I go onto the Boy Scouts Of America BSA website to edit and print the forms online, which is what AdobeReader will let me do if would execute.
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/Secure_PDF_Reader/forms.php
Besides there is a relatively old 32-bit linux version: $ su -c "yum install http://cdn01.foxitsoftware.com/pub/foxit/reader/desktop/linux/1.x/1.1/enu/Fo..." and "portable" $ wget -c http://cdn01.foxitsoftware.com/pub/foxit/reader/desktop/linux/1.x/1.1/enu/Fo... $ tar xf FoxitReader-1.1.0.tar.bz2 $ ./1.1-release/FoxitReader
I tested filling out interactive forms, save and print with certain documents. It all works within FoxitReader-6.2.0.0429 by 'wine', what unfortunately can not be said for Linux 1.1 Build 20090810 - Segmentation fault. This is my test. Test yourself for your needs and let us know here what are the results.
poma
Besides note the following:
Acrobat and Reader 9.x and 8.x release notes http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/release-note/release-notes-acrobat-reader.htm... "May 14, 2013 9.5.5 Q Latest and FINAL release. This patch fixes specific security issues."
http://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/ReleaseNotes/Acrobat_Reade... "Note: This is the last release of the 9.x product version series. 9.x products are end-of-lifed with the 9.5.5 dot release. Support ends on June 23, 2013."
http://blogs.adobe.com/adobereader/2013/05/adobe-reader-and-acrobat-xi-11-0-... "Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9 EOL As a reminder, Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9 End-of-Life will occur next month. As stated in the Adobe Support Lifecycle Policy, Adobe provides five years of product support from the general availability date of Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat. In line with that policy, support for Adobe Reader 9.x and Adobe Acrobat 9.x will end on June 26, 2013."
"End of Support End of Support means that Adobe will no longer provide technical support or distribute runtimes, including product and/or security updates, for all derivatives of a product or product version (e.g. localized versions, minor upgrades, operating systems, dot and double-dot releases, and connector products)."
Conclude yourself.
poma
Actually filling interactive forms in the above mentioned documents is possible by the apps with pdf support based on poppler, Evince & Okular. Let's say one difference I noticed when filling the form e.g. date input, unlike FoxitReader, it ain't controllable in Evince & Okular. Nevertheless they are useful for this task.
= Evince - Adobe reader - Comparison Notes = https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince/ComparingEvinceAcroread
Advanced Function 12. Fill in PDF form "Evince has a basic forms support. Some features are still missing like spell checking and signature fields are not supported yet." Needs improvement
= Okular - Development News = http://okular.kde.org/news.php
"This release introduces new features like undo/redo support for forms and annotations and configurable review tools."
"Possibility to save a PDF document with the changes to the form fields"
"Improved support for forms"
= Poppler - libpoppler = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppler_(software)
"As of the version 0.18 release in 2011, the poppler library represents a complete implementation of ISO 32000-1,[not in citation given] the PDF format standard, and is the first major free PDF library to support its forms (only Acroforms but not full XFA forms[5][6]) and annotations features.[3]"
Features "Poppler partially supports interactive documents using JavaScript,[13] annotations, and Acroforms. It does not support rendering of full XFA forms.[5]"
poma
Fedora 20 /KDE
yum -y localinstall AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm Yum does install AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm
but when I run the command acroread the Adobereader won't start and nothing shows in /var/log/messages.
I Downloaded the AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.bin and installed it on a NEW F20 Box and it works perfect.
But on two other previous boxes I uninstalled AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm that will not execute and installed the AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.bin, it installed with no problems, but I'm still back to the old thing, it will not execute, just a flash of the Red Adobereader Splash screen for a second and then nothing.
There has Got to be something with Ferdora 20 that is causing this problem, now I have got two boxes that will not work with AdobeReader-9.5.5 on Fedora 20.
I have to have AdobeReader-9.5.5 , because the FOSS pdf readers will not allow me to Edit and Print PDF files Online at the Boy Scouts of america website.
On 07/12/2014 02:07 PM, Mickey wrote:
Fedora 20 /KDE
yum -y localinstall AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm Yum does install AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm
but when I run the command acroread the Adobereader won't start and nothing shows in /var/log/messages.
I Downloaded the AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.bin and installed it on a NEW F20 Box and it works perfect.
But on two other previous boxes I uninstalled AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm that will not execute and installed the AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.bin, it installed with no problems, but I'm still back to the old thing, it will not execute, just a flash of the Red Adobereader Splash screen for a second and then nothing.
There has Got to be something with Ferdora 20 that is causing this problem, now I have got two boxes that will not work with AdobeReader-9.5.5 on Fedora 20.
I have to have AdobeReader-9.5.5 , because the FOSS pdf readers will not allow me to Edit and Print PDF files Online at the Boy Scouts of america website.
I forgot to add , I'am running a 32 bit Fedora-20 install on all of the boxes.
On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 14:13:12 -0400 Mickey binarynut@comcast.net wrote:
On 07/12/2014 02:07 PM, Mickey wrote:
Fedora 20 /KDE
yum -y localinstall AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm Yum does install AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm
but when I run the command acroread the Adobereader won't start and nothing shows in /var/log/messages.
I Downloaded the AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.bin and installed it on a NEW F20 Box and it works perfect.
But on two other previous boxes I uninstalled AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm that will not execute and installed the AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.bin, it installed with no problems, but I'm still back to the old thing, it will not execute, just a flash of the Red Adobereader Splash screen for a second and then nothing.
There has Got to be something with Ferdora 20 that is causing this problem, now I have got two boxes that will not work with AdobeReader-9.5.5 on Fedora 20.
I have to have AdobeReader-9.5.5 , because the FOSS pdf readers will not allow me to Edit and Print PDF files Online at the Boy Scouts of america website.
I forgot to add , I'am running a 32 bit Fedora-20 install on all of the boxes.
I'm not using proprietary closed source software, but try running it from a command line to see if there is any error from the program. You can also try to check if it is missing any library (if it is not statically linked) with 'ldd <binary>', also if you have SElinux enabled (which is default on Fedora) check for its messages (I think in /var/log/audit/audit.log) (maybe it blocks some "actions" from you software, and if it does, you can temporarily try disabling SELinux and testing it again)
On 07/12/2014 05:24 PM, bitlord wrote:
On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 14:13:12 -0400 Mickey binarynut@comcast.net wrote:
On 07/12/2014 02:07 PM, Mickey wrote:
Fedora 20 /KDE
yum -y localinstall AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm Yum does install AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm
but when I run the command acroread the Adobereader won't start and nothing shows in /var/log/messages.
I Downloaded the AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.bin and installed it on a NEW F20 Box and it works perfect.
But on two other previous boxes I uninstalled AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm that will not execute and installed the AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.bin, it installed with no problems, but I'm still back to the old thing, it will not execute, just a flash of the Red Adobereader Splash screen for a second and then nothing.
There has Got to be something with Ferdora 20 that is causing this problem, now I have got two boxes that will not work with AdobeReader-9.5.5 on Fedora 20.
I have to have AdobeReader-9.5.5 , because the FOSS pdf readers will not allow me to Edit and Print PDF files Online at the Boy Scouts of america website.
I forgot to add , I'am running a 32 bit Fedora-20 install on all of the boxes.
I'm not using proprietary closed source software, but try running it from a command line to see if there is any error from the program. You can also try to check if it is missing any library (if it is not statically linked) with 'ldd <binary>', also if you have SElinux enabled (which is default on Fedora) check for its messages (I think in /var/log/audit/audit.log) (maybe it blocks some "actions" from you software, and if it does, you can temporarily try disabling SELinux and testing it again)
No error message at command line.
Selinux is disabled.
acroread execute is in /usr/bin and it is linked to /opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin/acroread and if i execute acroread in /opt dir it execute and gives the Red AdobeReader splash screen, then goes away. So there is no linking problem to execute of acroread.
$ strace acroread &> acroreadTEST.txt (here is the last few lines in Strace and there is a Error message, but I don't understand what means.
writev(3, [{"H\0027\376\235\1\300\0\243\1\300\0U\2m\0\0\0m\0\0\30\300\0", 24}, {"\n\n\320\0\n\n\320\0\n\n\320\0\n\n\320\0\n\n\320\0\n\n\320\0\n\n\320\0\n\n\320\0"..., 260292}, {"", 0}], 3) = 183360 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=3, revents=POLLOUT}]) writev(3, [{"\7\7\253\0\7\7\253\0\7\7\253\0\7\7\253\0\7\7\253\0\7\7\253\0\7\7\253\0\7\7\253\0"..., 76956}, {"", 0}], 2) = 76956 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=3, revents=POLLOUT}]) writev(3, [{"H\2D\243\235\1\300\0\243\1\300\0U\2F\0\0\0\332\0\0\30\300\0", 24}, {"\7\7\252\0\7\7\252\0\7\7\252\0\7\7\252\0\7\7\252\0\7\7\252\0\7\7\252\0\7\7\252\0"..., 167160}, {"", 0}], 3) = 167184 --- SIGSEGV {si_signo=SIGSEGV, si_code=SI_KERNEL, si_addr=0} --- rt_sigaction(SIGABRT, {SIG_DFL, [ABRT], SA_RESTART}, {0x850aafa, [], 0}, 8) = 0 exit_group(1) = ? +++ exited with 1 +++
Hi Mickey, This might be a moot point, but have you tried deleting the adobereader profile in your home directory, which fixed my 9.5.5 64bit reader problem when its execution produced errors about being unable to read a file?
regards, Steve
On 07/13/2014 09:37 AM, Mickey wrote:
On 07/12/2014 05:24 PM, bitlord wrote:
On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 14:13:12 -0400 Mickey binarynut@comcast.net wrote:
On 07/12/2014 02:07 PM, Mickey wrote:
Fedora 20 /KDE
yum -y localinstall AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm Yum does install AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm
but when I run the command acroread the Adobereader won't start and nothing shows in /var/log/messages.
I Downloaded the AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.bin and installed it on a NEW F20 Box and it works perfect.
But on two other previous boxes I uninstalled AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm that will not execute and installed the AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.bin, it installed with no problems, but I'm still back to the old thing, it will not execute, just a flash of the Red Adobereader Splash screen for a second and then nothing.
There has Got to be something with Ferdora 20 that is causing this problem, now I have got two boxes that will not work with AdobeReader-9.5.5 on Fedora 20.
I have to have AdobeReader-9.5.5 , because the FOSS pdf readers will not allow me to Edit and Print PDF files Online at the Boy Scouts of america website.
I forgot to add , I'am running a 32 bit Fedora-20 install on all of the boxes.
I'm not using proprietary closed source software, but try running it from a command line to see if there is any error from the program. You can also try to check if it is missing any library (if it is not statically linked) with 'ldd <binary>', also if you have SElinux enabled (which is default on Fedora) check for its messages (I think in /var/log/audit/audit.log) (maybe it blocks some "actions" from you software, and if it does, you can temporarily try disabling SELinux and testing it again)
No error message at command line.
Selinux is disabled.
acroread execute is in /usr/bin and it is linked to /opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin/acroread and if i execute acroread in /opt dir it execute and gives the Red AdobeReader splash screen, then goes away. So there is no linking problem to execute of acroread.
$ strace acroread &> acroreadTEST.txt (here is the last few lines in Strace and there is a Error message, but I don't understand what means.
writev(3, [{"H\0027\376\235\1\300\0\243\1\300\0U\2m\0\0\0m\0\0\30\300\0", 24}, {"\n\n\320\0\n\n\320\0\n\n\320\0\n\n\320\0\n\n\320\0\n\n\320\0\n\n\320\0\n\n\320\0"..., 260292}, {"", 0}], 3) = 183360 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=3, revents=POLLOUT}]) writev(3, [{"\7\7\253\0\7\7\253\0\7\7\253\0\7\7\253\0\7\7\253\0\7\7\253\0\7\7\253\0\7\7\253\0"..., 76956}, {"", 0}], 2) = 76956 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=3, revents=POLLOUT}]) writev(3, [{"H\2D\243\235\1\300\0\243\1\300\0U\2F\0\0\0\332\0\0\30\300\0", 24}, {"\7\7\252\0\7\7\252\0\7\7\252\0\7\7\252\0\7\7\252\0\7\7\252\0\7\7\252\0\7\7\252\0"..., 167160}, {"", 0}], 3) = 167184 --- SIGSEGV {si_signo=SIGSEGV, si_code=SI_KERNEL, si_addr=0} --- rt_sigaction(SIGABRT, {SIG_DFL, [ABRT], SA_RESTART}, {0x850aafa, [], 0}, 8) = 0 exit_group(1) = ? +++ exited with 1 +++
On 07/12/2014 09:14 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
Hi Mickey, This might be a moot point, but have you tried deleting the adobereader profile in your home directory, which fixed my 9.5.5 64bit reader problem when its execution produced errors about being unable to read a file?
regards, Steve
On 07/13/2014 09:37 AM, Mickey wrote:
On 07/12/2014 05:24 PM, bitlord wrote:
On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 14:13:12 -0400 Mickey binarynut@comcast.net wrote:
On 07/12/2014 02:07 PM, Mickey wrote:
Fedora 20 /KDE
yum -y localinstall AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm Yum does install AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm
but when I run the command acroread the Adobereader won't start and nothing shows in /var/log/messages.
I Downloaded the AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.bin and installed it on a NEW F20 Box and it works perfect.
But on two other previous boxes I uninstalled AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm that will not execute and installed the AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.bin, it installed with no problems, but I'm still back to the old thing, it will not execute, just a flash of the Red Adobereader Splash screen for a second and then nothing.
There has Got to be something with Ferdora 20 that is causing this problem, now I have got two boxes that will not work with AdobeReader-9.5.5 on Fedora 20.
I have to have AdobeReader-9.5.5 , because the FOSS pdf readers will not allow me to Edit and Print PDF files Online at the Boy Scouts of america website.
I forgot to add , I'am running a 32 bit Fedora-20 install on all of the boxes.
I'm not using proprietary closed source software, but try running it from a command line to see if there is any error from the program. You can also try to check if it is missing any library (if it is not statically linked) with 'ldd <binary>', also if you have SElinux enabled (which is default on Fedora) check for its messages (I think in /var/log/audit/audit.log) (maybe it blocks some "actions" from you software, and if it does, you can temporarily try disabling SELinux and testing it again)
No error message at command line.
Selinux is disabled.
acroread execute is in /usr/bin and it is linked to /opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin/acroread and if i execute acroread in /opt dir it execute and gives the Red AdobeReader splash screen, then goes away. So there is no linking problem to execute of acroread.
$ strace acroread &> acroreadTEST.txt (here is the last few lines in Strace and there is a Error message, but I don't understand what means.
writev(3, [{"H\0027\376\235\1\300\0\243\1\300\0U\2m\0\0\0m\0\0\30\300\0", 24}, {"\n\n\320\0\n\n\320\0\n\n\320\0\n\n\320\0\n\n\320\0\n\n\320\0\n\n\320\0\n\n\320\0"..., 260292}, {"", 0}], 3) = 183360 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=3, revents=POLLOUT}]) writev(3, [{"\7\7\253\0\7\7\253\0\7\7\253\0\7\7\253\0\7\7\253\0\7\7\253\0\7\7\253\0\7\7\253\0"..., 76956}, {"", 0}], 2) = 76956 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=3, revents=POLLOUT}]) writev(3, [{"H\2D\243\235\1\300\0\243\1\300\0U\2F\0\0\0\332\0\0\30\300\0", 24}, {"\7\7\252\0\7\7\252\0\7\7\252\0\7\7\252\0\7\7\252\0\7\7\252\0\7\7\252\0\7\7\252\0"..., 167160}, {"", 0}], 3) = 167184 --- SIGSEGV {si_signo=SIGSEGV, si_code=SI_KERNEL, si_addr=0} --- rt_sigaction(SIGABRT, {SIG_DFL, [ABRT], SA_RESTART}, {0x850aafa, [], 0}, 8) = 0 exit_group(1) = ? +++ exited with 1 +++
I uninstalled Adobereader and then I went into ~/.adobe/Acrobat and deleted that directory.
I then installed as SU AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.bin and then tried to run acroread again and got same results, acroread won't start.
I,m thinking about backing up my Harddrive and reformat the whole drive and reinstalling Adobe fresh install and see what happens .
I replaced a harddrive on another computer that had crashed yesterday, and did a total fresh install with AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.bin and on the new drive AdobeReader ran perfect.
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