On 01/17/2012 05:11 PM, David Jansen wrote: > Well, this may not be the perfect place to ask about a closed-source > program, but I'm probably not the only one installing AdobeReader > (acroread) on a Linux system. > Ever since installing Fedora 16, AdobeReader's print properties > dialogue is unusable: no options visible, and the line displaying the > print command is no longer editable. Everything else works, displaying > PDFs, and printing using the "custom" printer and specifying the lpr > options manually. But that is of course not very convenient. > > Problem is the same whether I install AdobeReader for rpm > (AdobeReader_enu-9.4.6-1.i486) or from the tar file. The same versions > of AdobeReader work fine on Fedora 14 and 15 (and RHEL 5 and 6). So I > guess there is something that changed in the libraries this program > uses. Or perhaps, since it is only the print dialog that is flawed, in > the interaction with cups. > In case it matters: the Fedora machines are set up with cups just > pointing to a central print server running RHEL 6. > > Yes, all PDFs I have work just fine in evince or okular, so it's no > big deal. But sometimes there are those nasty things like pdf forms > that don't really work in the open source viewers, so a solution would > be welcome. > Running fully updated F16 the same AdobeReader RPM from Adobe. I've got an HP 6500 printer installed and the "Properties" dialog is displayed correctly. I am able to make any changes and their are honored just fine....including the lpr line. -- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. -- Douglas Adams in "Mostly Harmless" * Unknown - detected * English * Chinese (Simplified) * Chinese (Traditional) * Japanese * Korean * English * Chinese (Simplified) * Chinese (Traditional) * Japanese * Korean <javascript:void(0);>
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