Acrobat Reader 8 not working in FC1
Bevan C. Bennett
bevan at fulcrummicro.com
Thu Jan 22 19:42:21 UTC 2004
Ko Pu wrote:
> Has anybody succeded in making AR5.08 working under FC1? I downloaded
> the file from Adobe and installed several times, but it still won't
> work. I even tried to just open the application in both locations
> (/usr/local/Acrobat5/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread and
> /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread) but nothing happened, is there
> anything that I need to do? I think if this part is not working, the
> plugin won't work either.
>
> Thanks in advance for your comment/suggestion
For the reader, you need to edit the launch script
(/usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread) to change the value of LANG to
something that isn't UTF-8.
simply placing "LANG=en_US" near the top of the file, for instance,
works for ugly Americans.
According to various sources, "LANG=C" or "LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1"
(replace en_US with your preferred language code) work as well or better.
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