cannot run Adobe Reader

[Mike Holstein]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Hartmut Noack <zettberlin at linuxuse.de>wrote:

> Am 26.11.2012 00:14, schrieb David King, linux user:
> > Booklet printing is where you can print a document of several pages
> long, but each page is reduced to fit on half the sheet, and all in the
> correct order so that when printed the whole lot can be stapled and folded
> to form a booklet,
>
> This is a standard-function of the Linux Printing System. You can print
> any multi-page document from any application that way.
>

i was going to fire up the default pdf reader and test this... i seem to
remember doing "booklet printing" without any issues using default tools,
but i wanted to test it first hand and make certain. i remember it being
part of the print dialog, not specific to the pdf reading software.

>
>
>
> > albeit smaller than the original document. Currently I now have to go
> into Windows, via Virtualbox  to do this. I realise Ubuntu developers
> cannot fix Adobe Reader, but it seems to rely on libxml2, which is part of
> Linux, and the error message suggests that's where the problem lies, as it
> used to work previously before one of the updates I did in Ubuntu Studio.
> >
> > David
> >
> > Sent from my android device.
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mike Holstein <mikeh789 at gmail.com>
> > To: Ubuntu Studio Users Help and Discussion <
> ubuntu-studio-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> > Sent: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:26
> > Subject: Re: cannot run Adobe Reader
> >
> > On Nov 25, 2012 9:11 AM, "David King, linux user" <linuxman at avoura.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> I use Adobe Reader for its booklet printing ability. I have not found a
> > FOSS pdf reader that can do that.
> >
> > I would file wishlist bugs with the foss projects in question. We can't
> > include adobe reader. We also can't "fix" it if its broken. I would
> contact
> > adobe for support of the adobe products. I would be glad to help track
> down
> > booklet printing if you'd elaborate as to what that is. Also, in the
> > interest of casting a wider support query, you might seek help in the
> main
> > ubuntu avenues as this issue is not ubuntustudio specific. Cheers.
> >
> > Holstein
> >>
> >> David K
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>
> >> To: ubuntu-studio-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> >> Sent: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 1:47
> >> Subject: Re: cannot run Adobe Reader
> >>
> >> On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 00:03 +0000, David King wrote:
> >>> I installed Adobe Reader 9.5.1, but it will not run.
> >>>
> >>> The output I get from the CLI is:
> >>>
> >>> $ acroread
> >>> /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading
> >>> shared libraries: libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No
> >>> such file or directory
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I checked in Synaptic and libxml2 is installed.
> >>>
> >>> I am running Ubuntu Studio 12.04
> >>>
> >>> So why is my Adobe Reader not working? I tried uninstalling it,
> >>> downloading it again from the Adobe site, and reinstalling, but it did
> >>> not help.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> David K
> >>
> >> Perhaps an multi-architecture issue? Do you run an Ubuntu Studio amd64
> >> install? If so, is libxml2:i386 installed?
> >>
> >> Is Adobe reader needed for something? I'm not dogmatic, I use
> >> proprietary software myself, but only if needed. Why do you want Adobe
> >> reader?
> >>
> >>
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