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flimmerfix
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 Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 1:01 pm Post subject: acroread |
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Is someone using acroread? It should be possible since the suse amd64 can use it. Here is the errror message I get:
| Code: | Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
Warning: X locale modifiers not supported, using default
Fatal System Error: Raise at top of Exception Stack
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crazycat
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| Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 1:43 pm Post subject: |
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| no success eather. Free pdf readers often cannot read some graphics in pdf files :/ |
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flimmerfix
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| Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Exactly and converting pdf to ps level 2 (for my printer) the arcoreader gives me the best results. |
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Chuck Milam
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| Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 2:50 pm Post subject: Re: acroread |
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| flimmerfix wrote: | | Is someone using acroread? It should be possible since the suse amd64 can use it... |
The question, then, is how is Suse amd64 using it? 32-bit compat libs or somesuch thing? |
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crazycat
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| Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 4:21 pm Post subject: |
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| I bet they have some special glibc compatibility version or so |
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lorgoth
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| Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 3:09 pm Post subject: Can we get it working? |
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| Does anyone think that there is a possibility to get it working under Gentoo? I am really starting to get annoyed as I view a fair number of pdf files and the free readers are just horrible in comparison to acroread. I am willing to help or play around, but I just don't really know where to start. Any ideas? Is Adobe going to release a 64 bit version? |
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Chuck Milam
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| Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 3:28 pm Post subject: Re: Can we get it working? |
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| lorgoth wrote: | | Does anyone think that there is a possibility to get it working under Gentoo? I am really starting to get annoyed as I view a fair number of pdf files and the free readers are just horrible in comparison to acroread. I am willing to help or play around, but I just don't really know where to start. Any ideas? Is Adobe going to release a 64 bit version? |
Let me second this. I'm a law student, and with my 64-bit laptop, I'd like to be able to read/print my assigned cases without having boot into Windows, then having to boot back to Linux for E-mail, etc. Of course, booting into Windows does keep me from tinkering with my Linux installation when I should be studying... 
Anyway, back to the subject at hand: Getting Acrobat reader working under 64-Linux. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I see two ways to make this work:
1. Find some sort of compatibility layer to allow the exsisting 32-bit Linux Acrobat reader to work with 64-bit Linux. Obviously, Suse must have some insight into this, as a previous post mentioned Acrobat reader is working with the 64-bit version of Suse Linux.
2. Petition Adobe to release a 64-bit Linux version of Acrobat. In my opinion, this might be worth the effort to get our voices heard, as Adobe seems to be pretty responsive--and I'm sure any way they can get the PDF format usable on more platforms is good business strategy. Does anyone have insight on the best way to approach Adobe to encourage them to release a 64-bit version of the Acrobat reader? Petition, letter-writing, E-mail a particular contact address, etc.
As with lorgoth, I'm not sure where to start. |
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evgeny
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| Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 4:12 pm Post subject: Re: acroread |
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| flimmerfix wrote: | Is someone using acroread? It should be possible since the suse amd64 can use it. Here is the errror message I get:
| Code: | Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
Warning: X locale modifiers not supported, using default
Fatal System Error: Raise at top of Exception Stack
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OK, I spent today an hour trying to understand what happens. Here's the result: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62110.
Until the bugs are properly fixed, you can do the following:
1. Add this line to the /opt/Acrobat5/acroread script:
| Code: | | export XLOCALEDIR=/emul/linux/x86/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/ |
2. Either copy the entire contents of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/ except /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/lib to /emul/linux/x86/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale
or, at the very least (if your locale is C/POSIX), copy the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/C dir and create a trivial locale.dir file:
| Code: | | echo "C/XLC_LOCALE: C" > /emul/linux/x86/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/locale.dir |
Now, where is my free beer? 
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Kuhrscher
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| Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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It's fantastic. Great work!!!
Acroread including the plugin works for me like on the x86-system before
Thank you!!!  |
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Kuhrscher
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| Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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And now the staroffice setup works too!
You are me hero |
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AnnaCr
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o_O
nice. |
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Lv
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| Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 6:44 am Post subject: |
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an easier way to do this is to make a symlink for lib instead of copying stuff over, but that would disable locale support for 64bit apps. currently i'm working on making our xorg ebuilds lib64 aware... and this is part of that. when i'm finished, that lib can be symlinked into the emul directory safely, and 64bit apps will use lib64.
right now lib64 support depends on portage 2.0.51_pre20 and having CONF_LIBDIR set to lib64, but i'll poke at fixing things so that it's the default... i dont know what portage functions are being called from the xorg ebuild, but if any of them are not CONF_LIBDIR aware you guys will have to wait for portage 2.0.51 to have a fix in the tree. |
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Lv
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| Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:48 am Post subject: |
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alright, this bug is now fixed and fixed for all apps if you are using:
xorg-x11-6.7.99.903.ebuild
emul-linux-x86-xlibs/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-1.2-r1.ebuild
make sure you get the latest versions of these, as there have been changes to them without a revision bump. the ChangeLog file for xlibs should say:
31 Aug 2004; Travis Tilley <lv@gentoo.org>
emul-linux-x86-xlibs-1.2-r1.ebuild:
fix the locale fix so that it works for apps other than adobe acrobat
and the changelog for xorg-x11 should say:
31 Aug 2004; Travis Tilley <lv@gentoo.org> xorg-x11-6.7.99.903.ebuild:
I've added an override for amd64 that will use lib64 as the lib directory even when CONF_LIBDIR isnt lib64. This should allow for bug 62110 to be fixed
(locales broken for 32bit apps). |
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lorgoth
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| Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 6:03 am Post subject: Thanks and Questions... |
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evgeny...Thanks!!! I really appreciate the work. My system is slowly getting back to normal in a 64 bit world. I can almost use all of the apps I was using before I decided to jump to the 64 bit world.
Lv...I couldn't quite follow your solution. I have the proper xorg-x11 and emul libs installed, but I am not sure which lib to symlink and what to symlink it to (b/c I don't really understand the problem in the first place I presume). Would you mind expounding a bit on your solution?
Thanks! |
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Lv
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| Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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step 1) install xorg-x11 6.7.99.903 or 6.7.99.904.
step 2) reinstall emul-linux-x86-xlibs |
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lorgoth
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| Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks Lv. I guess if I was intelligent enough to read the note generated when emerging the emul-linux-x86-xlibs I would have know that. Sorry for not paying attention to the explanation that was already there and thanks again for the answer. |
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Horatio
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I emerged again xorg-x11-6.7.0-r2, looking at the file ChangeLog for the lines mentioned. Then I emerged again emul-linux-x86-xlibs-1.2-r1. Then tried executing /opt/Acrobat5/acroread, but it didn't work. I then changed the file acroread:
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#export XLOCALEDIR=/usr/X11R6/lib32/X11/locale/
export XLOCALEDIR=/emul/linux/x86/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/
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commenting the old line, and adding the new export XLOCALEDIR=... I then tried executing /opt/Acrobat5/acroread, and still, it didn't work. So I tried loging out before trying again, and then rebooting before trying again. Still no success. I then:
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bash-2.05b# cd /emul/linux/x86/usr/X11R6/lib/X11
bash-2.05b# cp -a locale locale.original
bash-2.05b# ls
locale locale.original
bash-2.05b# cp -a /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale .
bash-2.05b# rm -R locale/lib
bash-2.05b# cp -a locale.original/lib locale/lib
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and tried excuting acroread. Still, no success. I then emerged again emul-linux-x86-xlibs-1.2-r1, and now executing /opt/Acrobat5/acroread is a success. No errors are printed to the terminal I started the program.
Maybe others have had varying success in the approach outlined above? |
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ngrady
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:20 am Post subject: Seems to work fine with current ebuilds |
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| I ran into this problem and (with xorg-x11-6.8.0-r1 at least) just remerging emul-linux-x86-xlibs now seems to fix it. |
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cryos
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| Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 1:45 am Post subject: |
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I really hadn't realised acroread was working, and was just trying to figure out what I might be able to do to get it working! Just before posting to the forums I did a quick search and to my delight you guys have already got it working! It would be great if Adobe would recompile for amd64, and a nicer graphical toolkit may be
This is great though - great work guys!!!  |
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eNTi
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| Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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there's a beta of acrobat reader 7 for linux already. maybe this one will work on 64bit normally.
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Jerry Gardner
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| Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 9:30 pm Post subject: Link? |
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| Quote: | | there's a beta of acrobat read 7 for linux already |
Can you post a link please? I poked around on the Adobe web site and couldn't find the Reader 7 beta for Linux. |
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| Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 11:57 pm Post subject: |
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| I hadn't done anything special as I remember and acroread seems to be working. I only use it to wiev pdf's and nothing more advanced. |
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eNTi
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https://adobe.centercode.com/callout/default.html?callid={4EE7B13E-2D84-4AF6-A27B-E8FD6C94A42F}
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| eNTi wrote: | | https://adobe.centercode.com/callout/default.html?callid={4EE7B13E-2D84-4AF6-A27B-E8FD6C94A42F} |
Or just read/download this ...
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eNTi
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| Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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it's still not working here...
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nt@eNTi $ acroread
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