Adobe Viewer Problems

[Liam Proven]

On 17 October 2011 19:14, Kipton Moravec <kip at kdream.com> wrote:
> The reason I selected Linux is so I do not have to put up with Big
> Corporation's BS.
>
> Today someone sent me a PDF file in an email.
>
> I tried to open it with "Document Viewer" and I get a page that says
>
> "For the best experience, open this PDF portfolio in
> Acrobat 9 or Adobe Reader 9, or later."
>
> It will not let me see the PDF file!
>
> `So another option in my email is to Open with gv
>
> Error:
>
> (And the Ghostscript Message box will not let me cut and paste the
> error! WHY??)
>
> Error: /rangecheckGPL Ghostscript 8.71: Unrecoverable Error, exit code 1
> in -- discardtransparancygroup
>
> So another option is to use Gimp Image Viewer. I get the same image
> about using version 9!
>
> So I take their advice and download the file. The only instructions are
> if a popup window upens and asks to save or run select run. My popup
> window saya save or cancel. So I choose save.
>
> Now I do not know what to do with the .bin file.
>
>
> kip at Red:~/Downloads$ AdbeRdr9.4.2-1_i486linux_enu.bin
> AdbeRdr9.4.2-1_i486linux_enu.bin: command not found
>
> kip at Red:~/Downloads$ ./AdbeRdr9.4.2-1_i486linux_enu.bin
> bash: ./AdbeRdr9.4.2-1_i486linux_enu.bin: Permission denied
>
> kip at Red:~/Downloads$ sudo ./AdbeRdr9.4.2-1_i486linux_enu.bin
> [sudo] password for kip:
> sudo: ./AdbeRdr9.4.2-1_i486linux_enu.bin: command not found
>
>
> So I save it and open my Windows XP machine. To make sure the PDF File
> is good.
>
>
> I swear in the past day or so it upgraded Adobe Reader. It seems to
> upgrade every two weeks or so. It will not open.
>
> It says I have 8 and the current version is 10.1.1.
>
> So I download it, and it downloads Adobe Reader which I say yes to, and
> also downloads Chrome which it never asked me about. :)
>
> It stops the upgrade until I close the window that caused this mess to
> begin with.  So I close the window. It takes forever to download amd
> install, (>15 minutes) and I have Fiber Optics to the house.
>
> Then it needs to reboot the computer. So I have to save everything I
> have been working on with that computer so Adobe can make it reboot. :)
>
> So he sent me a PDF Portfolio! Which is a PDF file with a number of
> files like PDF, docx, and rtf files. (First time I have seen that and I
> do not like it.)
>
>
> What do I have to do to get this to work on my Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS
> computer?  I obviously do not know what to do with their .bin file.

Try Evince, which GNOME calls "Document Viewer", I think. It's the
free PDF viewer, not Ghostscript, which is for EPS files. Installed as
standard, or you can add it from Synaptic or Software Centre,
depending on what version of Ubuntu you're running.

Failing that, you will have to set the downloaded .bin file as
runnable before you can execute it. Downloading and running files is
/not/ the recommended way to install things on Ubuntu, though. Try
Googling for "how to install adobe reader on ubuntu" and follow the
instructions for your version of the distro (which you've not
specified).

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