Q: How to install Acrobat Reader?

[D. R. Evans]

Status report, for anyone who might come across this thread while
googling for a solution to a problem:

> 1. Every time I start acrobat, I get the following on the console:
>   (acroread:8876): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in
> module_path: "qtengine",
>
> (acroread:8876): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in
> module_path: "qtengine",
>

I haven't found a fix for this. Annoying, but not fatal.

> 2. It also pops up a dialog box that says that it cannot initialize
> the plug-in "PPKLite.api"
>

Fixed this (see another posting in this thread).

> 3. Despite these errors, documents can be viewed, but their aspect
> ratio is wrong: they all look long and thin.
>

I haven't found a fix for this. A bit more than annoying, but I can at
least view documents far far better than the quality of kpdf (which
seems to suck royally under Kubuntu; I'm not sure why; it looked great
in Mdv; but that's a problem for another day), and they print OK.

Incidentally, this really seems to affect every document. I tried
creating US letter-sized documents with both LaTeX and OOo, and they
all look long and thin on the screen when viewed with acrobat, as do
all the documents I've found from other sources. It's as if somehow
acrobat has something set to display everything on an A4 background.
Very odd; I've never seen anything like it.