Re: Anyone else having problems with acroread?

[Gerry Tool]

Harry Putnam wrote:

Maybe someone will recognize this error and know what it is about:

First, using xpdf, I have no problem:
  xpdf motorola_v60.pdf
  <motorola_v60.pdf opens as expected>

  acroread motorola_v60.pdf
  Warning: charset "UTF-8" not supported, using "ISO8859-1".
  Aborted

Even the *.pdf files that unpacked with version 5, cause this same
error:

  acroread MapTypes.pdf
   Warning: charset "UTF-8" not supported, using "ISO8859-1".
   Aborted

My env setting for $LANG shows something that may be the culprit:
  echo $LANG
  en_US.UTF-8

Unless I did something dumb during install this is what I got with a
fairly stock install.

You can edit /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread to add near the beginning of the file (i.e., just after the "ver" and "install" lines):

LANG=en_us
export LANG

and it should then work correctly.
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gerry
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