On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:11 AM, David Jansen <jansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. I have acroread on F16 (64 bit), and it works fine. All options visible. However, when you install AdobeReader_enu, it does not automatically bring in all the rpms that acroread really needs. You must also install PackageKit-gtk-module, libcanberra-gtk2, gtk2-engines at least, and perhaps more. (Some of the dependencies may have been already installed before installing AdobeReader_enu.) > 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. > > David Jansen -- Dale Dellutri -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
