Differences between version 5 and predecessor to the previous major change of AcrobatReader.
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| Newer page: | version 5 | Last edited on Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:45:28 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
| Older page: | version 2 | Last edited on Thursday, October 23, 2003 8:53:35 pm | by MattBrown | Revert |
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-Free [PDF] viewer provided by Adobe. Has both
Windows and Linux versions.
+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/]
If you are using Redhat 9 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
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This is to fix a problem with character sets that will manifest itself as
Warning: charset "UTF-8" not supported, using "ISO8859-1".
aborting
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+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 :)
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+On other distributions (such as [Debian] and [Slackware]), Acrobat Reader prints out the warning but doesn't abort.
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+Other [PDF] viewers you could try include xpdf(1) and GhostView (gv(1)). Both of these are [Free] software.
