Adobereader won't install

[Mickey]

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 at netspace.net.au <mailto:samorris at 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
>>>
>>>
>>
>> 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.