Differences between version 7 and predecessor to the previous major change of AcrobatReader.
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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 2 | Last edited on Thursday, October 23, 2003 8:53:35 pm | by MattBrown | Revert |
@@ -1,10 +1,19 @@
-Free [PDF] viewer provided by Adobe. Has both
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 or [Fedora
], AcrobatReader will probably crash at launch due to a problem with character sets:
-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
-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. 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.
+
+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
+
+See the UnicodeNotes page if you have no idea what "UTF-8" or "ISO8859-1" means. :-)
