Acrobat Reader

[Mark Eggers]

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 09:06 -0800, Matt Florido wrote:
> On Mon, March 14, 2005 9:40 pm, Michael A. Peters said:
> [...]
> > I haven't tried it yet - it's downloading now - previous Adobe readers
> > (for me) have only been worth deleting - but people are saying they
> > like this one a lot.
> >
> 
> Thank you for the link.  It seems promising!  (Even though it's a bit
> bloated)
> 

Installing from the tarball allows you to place the installation in
whatever directory you want (you're prompted).

I put mine in /opt/Adobe/Acrobat7.0.  I know it's a bit Sun-centric.
However, it works for me.

I then made a link from /opt/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin/acroread
to /usr/local/bin/acroread.  This got my command line (and KDE menu)
running.

I ran the install_browser_plugin script with the global options to set
up nppfd.so for Firefox.  Unfortunately, the script copies the shared
library instead of making a symbolic link.

I went through and deleted /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.1/plugins/nppdf.so and
made the symbolic link to

/opt/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so

All is well, scroll wheel works, speed is much better, and graphics are
much better.

All in all, a reasonable use of disk space.

-- 
Mark Eggers <mdeggers at earthlink.net>