Subject: Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader for Linux
From: Greg Madden (pabi@gci.net)
Date: Thu May 01 2003 - 17:22:52 AKDT
On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 16:19, Peter Q. Olsson wrote:
>
> Mr. Andy-
>
> I recently (last few weeks) installed 5.0.6 acrobat reader, both solaris and
> linux boxen, and never had problems such as you seem to be experiencing. wonder
> if you have a dot file (.acrobat or something) that is persisting and screwing
> you up.
>
> I note on my linux box that I have a ~/.acrobat directory, with one file, prefs.
> Is it possible when you run acroread that it cannot make this dir and file and
> so thinks this is a first time run for you each time?
>
> I just ran acroread as root (who has never run this version of acroread b4) and
> it came up with a license box with accept in the LLH corner and a cancel in the
> LRH corner. I clicked accept and it worked fine. next invocation it came up w/o
> the license agreement dialog. deleted the root/.acrobat dir and then invoking
> acroread it came up with the license box again...
>
> PQO
>
>
> >Has anyone installed this?
> >
> >Why the hell does the stupid license agreement pop up
> >EVERY freaking time I launch the application?
> >
> >How can I stop it? There are no buttons at all to agree
> >to the conditions.
> >
> >I use other pdf readers but this has always bothered me.
> >It is a simple install so if someone wants to try it:
> >http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
> >
> >Andy
Does the Linux version handle the .fpd files? These are PDF forms that
allow you to fill in the blanks, and submit onine.
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