problems running Acrobat Reader 5

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

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> Mirko Streckenbach wrote:
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> > This helps only against the startup crash, but acroread still crashes
> > / hangs when searching a term which cannot be found in the document
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> I've never seen this and I constantly have five or more PDFs open and do
> searches all the time.

On RH9, anyway, this is a consistently reproducible problem (though I
don't get the nice message on the console).  Just open a document in
acroread, press the search button, search for a string you know is not in
the document, and watch the fireworks.  I just tried with the latest glibc
updates and it still fails.

My guess (though anything is possible) is that Adobe needs to fix this
one.  See
http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?50@148.8xbebAtMEaw.1@.2ccd68bb.
and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=104363.
Apparently, it's RH7.3, 8, 9, and now FC1, and acroread 5.06, 7, and 8.
Not surprisingly, RH won't fix Adobe proprietary code.  It doesn't look
like Adobe's bug tracking process is very open 8^(.

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> The only other problem I know about is that repeated searching sometimes
>  gets stuck for some reason.  Must be another Motif problem since if the
> popup gets and loses focus a couple of times (i.e., wiggle with the
> mouse if you have appropriate mouse focus setting) it continues correctly.
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		Matthew Saltzman

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