Acrobat plugin failure

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TJNII · Post by **TJNII** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 3:27 am

I recently upgraded my system via an emerge -u world, and now the acrobat plugin fails to work in mozilla. Mozilla burps back an error about not being able to launch the application that looks pretty generic. On the console I spotted

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Usage: /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread [options] [list of files]

followed by the options of acroread. Acroread itself works from the command line. It looks like some setting somewhere is wrong. The question is: where?

Mozilla version: mozilla-1.7.13
Acrobat version: acroread-7.0.8
Acrobat was installed via portage with the nsplugin use flag.

TJNII · Post by **TJNII** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 8:17 pm

So nobody knows anything about this at all? It's getting pretty annoying having to download every PDF I come across and open them with xpdf.

TJNII · Post by **TJNII** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 1:05 am

So I installed firefox, same problem.
I tried erasing my user's .mozilla directory, same problem.

Kate Monster · Post by **Kate Monster** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 12:26 am

Hello,

Have you tried reverting back to previous versions of acroread, and mozilla?

gian · Post by **gian** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 7:40 pm

I just posted a similar problem (before finding this thread... yes... I'm blaming the "search forum" box...)

Acrobat works perfectly, tried reemerging it, and also emerging firefox (updating to 2.0) ... obviously I have the nsplugin use flag enabled and acrobat reader correctly shows upo in the about:plugins page.... acrobat starts, but does not open the file....

(edit: also tried removing the .Adobe directory in my home dir... no success)

desultory · Post by **desultory** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:34 pm

gian wrote:I just posted a similar problem (before finding this thread... yes... I'm blaming the "search forum" box...)

Moved [topic=534117]it[/topic] to Duplicate Threads.

wainer · Post by **wainer** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 11:47 am

For me, the problem is not only that the acroread plugin is not working.

acroread file.pdf

from the shell also starts acroread but does not open the file. The problem startes with the
upgrade to 7.0.9[/i]

cheers

jacques

wazow · Post by **wazow** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 1:05 pm

wainer wrote:For me, the problem is not only that the acroread plugin is not working.

acroread file.pdf

from the shell also starts acroread but does not open the file. The problem starts with the
upgrade to 7.0.9[/i]

I confirm the same issue. Acrobat no longer opens files from command line with this upgrade. I do not know what happened. In Firefox it actually starts up, but it is no longer swallowed inside browsers window, and has no file opened (probably due to the problem with command lines). Firefox complains that acrobat cannot be opened (while it actually does open, so probably the return value, or something like that is incorrect, too). This is on stable x86. Might be that we see the same problem as unstable users several months ago.

UncleTom · Post by **UncleTom** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 1:42 pm

wazow wrote:
wainer wrote:For me, the problem is not only that the acroread plugin is not working.

acroread file.pdf

from the shell also starts acroread but does not open the file. The problem starts with the
upgrade to 7.0.9[/i]
I confirm the same issue. Acrobat no longer opens files from command line with this upgrade. I do not know what happened. In Firefox it actually starts up, but it is no longer swallowed inside browsers window, and has no file opened (probably due to the problem with command lines). Firefox complains that acrobat cannot be opened (while it actually does open, so probably the return value, or something like that is incorrect, too). This is on stable x86. Might be that we see the same problem as unstable users several months ago.

Maybe the same solution works, too? Do you have an idea what that was?

Oh, btw, I have the same problem.

wazow · Post by **wazow** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 1:51 pm

UncleTom wrote:Maybe the same solution works, too? Do you have an idea what that was?

Was there any solution? I could not see it in the thread.

UncleTom · Post by **UncleTom** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 2:03 pm

Sorry, I must have misunderstood - I thought you were referring to something you had read somewhere else a few months ago.

I don't think it is the same problem though. It sounds as if there used to be something wrong with the plugin then. Now it's definitely acroread - it doesn't even work from the command line.

UncleTom · Post by **UncleTom** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 2:13 pm

I just had a look into the wrapper file that starts acroread (/opt/Acrobat7/acroread) which doesn't pass command line parameters to acroread.

There is already a bug report here.

zAfi · Post by **zAfi** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 10:08 pm

well, I hope this gets solved soon....in the meantime...kpdf or xpdf...

btw, is there a firefox plugin for kpdf?

UncleTom · Post by **UncleTom** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:32 am

zAfi wrote:well, I hope this gets solved soon....in the meantime...kpdf or xpdf...

btw, is there a firefox plugin for kpdf?

It might be easier just to change the script yourself. The necessary change is described in the bug report I linked to earlier, if you're not familiar with shell scripts.

mhodak · Post by **mhodak** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 4:31 am

Fortunately, this can be fixed rather easily. Open acrobat script (/opt/bin/acroread) and add to each line that contain
"exec /opt/Acrobat7/acroread.lang" (* stands for all of the languages listed en,de,fr,ja,ko,zh_CN,zh_TW) "$*" (omit apostrophes).
$* should go just before ";;".

I still hope that they fix it properly in partage.

wazow · Post by **wazow** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 5:28 pm

Or if you do not really need this small upgrade just append "=app-text/acroread-7.0.9" to /etc/portage/package.mask and let portage downgrade to acroread-7.0.8, so that it works as it used to. I find this a cleaner and safer solution, if you do not insist on this upgrade (which is minor anyway).

As soon as a fix is available in portage it will be grabbed in automatically with the next emerge world.

MetalWarrior · Post by **MetalWarrior** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 9:41 am

mhodak wrote:Fortunately, this can be fixed rather easily. Open acrobat script (/opt/bin/acroread) and add to each line that contain
"exec /opt/Acrobat7/acroread.lang" (* stands for all of the languages listed en,de,fr,ja,ko,zh_CN,zh_TW) "$*" (omit apostrophes).
$* should go just before ";;".

I still hope that they fix it properly in partage.

In this way you could have problem if you invoke acroread with something like "acroread /path\ to\ my\ dir/file.pdf", since the script will invoke "/opt/Acroread/acroread path to my dir/file" causing an error because of the white spaces.. change it in this way:

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#!/bin/bash
# Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
#
# Automatically generated by app-text/acroread-7.0.9

# Exec the acroread script for the language chosen in
# LC_ALL/LC_MESSAGES/LANG (first found takes precedence, as in glibc)
L=${LC_ALL}
L=${L:-${LC_MESSAGES}}
L=${L:-${LANG}}

first_param=$1
shift

case ${L} in
        en*) exec /opt/Acrobat7/acroread.en "${first_param}" $*;;
        it*) exec /opt/Acrobat7/acroread.it "${first_param}" $*;;
        *) exec /opt/Acrobat7/acroread.en "${first_param}" $*;;
esac

MetalWarrior · Post by **MetalWarrior** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 9:58 am

The problem has been corrected in the 7.0.9-r1 ebuild (which is masked by ~x86).. This is the correct acroread version (which surrounds by ".." each argument passed to acroread.* and not just the first one as I did in the previous post.. sorry, I didn't know about the existence of $@ and how it worked

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#!/bin/bash
# Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
#
# Automatically generated by app-text/acroread-7.0.9

# Exec the acroread script for the language chosen in
# LC_ALL/LC_MESSAGES/LANG (first found takes precedence, as in glibc)
L=${LC_ALL}
L=${L:-${LC_MESSAGES}}
L=${L:-${LANG}}

case ${L} in
	en*) exec /opt/Acrobat7/acroread.en "${first_param}" "$@";;
	it*) exec /opt/Acrobat7/acroread.it "${first_param}" "$@";;
	*) exec /opt/Acrobat7/acroread.en "${first_param}" "$@";;
esac