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Re: pdf files on Linux?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Nugent)
Tue Nov 10 20:06:13 1998

To: Jonathan Slavin <slavin@shevek.arc.nasa.gov>
Cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: message-id <Pine.LNX.3.96.981110153116.3187A-100000@shevek.arc.nasa.gov> 
	 of Tue, Nov 10 15:39:18 1998
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 10:49:55 +1000
From: Tony Nugent <Tony.Nugent@usq.edu.au>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
Reply-To: redhat-list@redhat.com

On Tue Nov 10 1998 at 15:39, Jonathan Slavin wrote:

> > I'm trying to view and print out a government form that needs an Adobe
> > Acrobat reader.  (which pisses me off, but what can I do. . . )
> 
> Acrobat Reader is available for Linux (for free) from Adobe's website.
> It's easy to install and can even work as a plugin to Netscape -- though,
> as I mentioned in an earlier message, it doesn't seem to work that way for
> Netscape 4.06.  By the way, I'll ask again, does anyone know why there is
> this problem with Acrobat 3.1 and Netscape 4.06 (RH 5.0) -- it works for
> Netscape 4.04.

To get the acrobat reader working either as a plugin or a helper
application, you'll need to add the following close to the top of the

Acrobat3/bin/acroread

script:

export -n LD_PRELOAD

Cheers
Tony


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