Adobe Viewer Problems

Tue Oct 18 14:32:48 UTC 2011

On 18 October 2011 15:02, Kipton Moravec <kip at kdream.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 13:36 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
>> On 18 October 2011 06:00, Kipton Moravec <kip at kdream.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 20:32 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
>> >> 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).
>> >>
>> >
>> > Evince or "Document Viewer" WAS the first thing I tried.
>>
>> And what happened?
>>
>> > If you look at may last paragraph I say "Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS" How
>> > should I specify my version of the distro?
>>
>> Ah, sorry, I missed that. But please, don't get testy, we are trying
>> to help you for free here. Remember that.
>>
>> > I was able to download Adobe 9.0 from the repositories, and it does not
>> > work right. There are 7 files in the portfolio and the reader only lets
>> > me see 1. The version on my Windows XP does see them all.
>>
>> What does it do or not do? Are there any error messages?
>
>> Evince or "Document Viewer" WAS the first thing I tried.
>>
>> And what happened?
>>
>> >> > 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!
>>
>
>
>> > I was able to download Adobe 9.0 from the repositories, and it does not
>> > work right. There are 7 files in the portfolio and the reader only lets
>> > me see 1. The version on my Windows XP does see them all.
>>
>> What does it do or not do? Are there any error messages?
>>
>
> There are 7 files in the portfolio it lets me see only one. The XP Version shows ICONS of each file in the left window, when I select one it opens it up in the right window,
>
> In the Linux version there are no ICONS in the left window, It asks if I want to open the first one only.

(Replied from off-list)

For what it's worth, Google also cannot parse and display the file you
sent me. PDF is revised regularly and can have extensions which can
possibly be platform-specific. It looks to me, from that file, that
you have some PDF version 9 or later files, which only Adobe Reader
has a chance of opening.

Possibly, only Adobe Reader on Windows, in which case, your best bet
would probably be to install the latest version of WINE from the
repositories and see if it will run Adobe Reader 9.x or 10.x for
Windows.

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