Print problems in AdobeReader (F16)

[Dale Dellutri]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:11 AM, David Jansen <jansen at strw.leidenuniv.nl> wrote:
> Well, this may not be the perfect place to ask about a closed-source
> program, but I'm probably not the only one installing AdobeReader (acroread)
> on a Linux system.
> Ever since installing Fedora 16, AdobeReader's print properties dialogue is
> unusable: no options visible, and the line displaying the print command is
> no longer editable. Everything else works, displaying PDFs, and printing
> using the "custom" printer and specifying the lpr options manually. But that
> is of course not very convenient.

I have acroread on F16 (64 bit), and it works fine.  All options visible.
However, when you install AdobeReader_enu, it does not automatically
bring in all the rpms that acroread really needs.  You must also install
  PackageKit-gtk-module, libcanberra-gtk2, gtk2-engines
at least, and perhaps more.  (Some of the dependencies may have
been already installed before installing AdobeReader_enu.)

> Problem is the same whether I install AdobeReader for rpm
> (AdobeReader_enu-9.4.6-1.i486) or from the tar file. The same versions of
> AdobeReader work fine on Fedora 14 and 15 (and RHEL 5 and 6). So I guess
> there is something that changed in the libraries this program uses. Or
> perhaps, since it is only the print dialog that is flawed, in the
> interaction with cups.
> In case it matters: the Fedora machines are set up with cups just pointing
> to a central print server running RHEL 6.
>
> Yes, all PDFs I have work just fine in evince or okular, so it's no big
> deal. But sometimes there are those nasty things like pdf forms that don't
> really work in the open source viewers, so a solution would be welcome.
>
> David Jansen

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Dale Dellutri