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| Newer page: | version 7 | Last edited on Thursday, June 3, 2004 8:32:39 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
| Older page: | version 6 | Last edited on Monday, May 10, 2004 3:32:43 pm | by MattBrown | Revert |
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-A
[free] but not [Free] [PDF] viewer provided by Adobe. There are binaries for many platforms, including Windows and Linux versions.
+[Acrobat Reader | http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/] is a
[free] but not [Free] [PDF] viewer provided by [
Adobe]
. There are binaries for many platforms, including Windows and Linux versions.
-Look
[here|http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/
]
+The
[PDF
] page lists a few other viewers, including [Free] ones.
-If you are using Redhat
9/
Fedora you
will need
to edit the /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread (or similar script) and add the following lines near the top
- LANG=C
- export LANG
+----
+
+
If you are using RedHat
9 or [
Fedora], AcrobatReader
will probably crash at launch due
to a problem with character sets:
-This is to fix a problem with character sets that will manifest itself as
Warning: charset "UTF-8" not supported, using "ISO8859-1".
aborting
-This problem occurs if your locale is set to one that uses UTF-8, which many distributions are now defaulting to. Use
the locale(1) command to see
what yours
is set to. See the UnicodeNotes page if you have no idea what "UTF-8" or "ISO8859-1" means :)
+This problem occurs if your locale is set to one that uses UTF-8, which many distributions are now defaulting to. On other distributions (such as [Debian] and [Slackware]), AcrobatReader prints out
the warning but doesn't abort. The
locale(1) command will tell you
what your locate
is set to.
-On other distributions
(such as [Debian] and [Slackware]
), Acrobat Reader prints out
the warning but doesn't abort.
+The workaround is to edit __/usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread__
(or wherever the equivalent is located on your system
) and add the following lines near
the top
+
+ LANG=C
+ export LANG
-Other [PDF] viewers
you could try include xpdf(
1) and GhostView (gv(1)). Both of these are [Free] software.
+See the UnicodeNotes page if
you have no idea what "UTF-8" or "ISO8859-
1" means. :-
)
