Re: Adobereader won't install

Mickey Sun, 29 Jun 2014 16:24:26 -0700


On 06/29/2014 05:48 PM, JD wrote:

On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Stephen Morris<samor...@netspace.net.au <mailto:samor...@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 alltheir forms are in pdf and they require AdobeReader .

Would you know where I can get the pdf-to-text.rpm, I could probablydownload the pdf's from BSA website and edit them with pdf-to-text.

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