Acrobat Reader 7 for Linux out!

ActionNews · 2005-03-15 15:13:53

Well would be nice if someone builds a package to replace this realy ugly Arcoread 5 .

Download: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/7x/7.0/enu/

Got the message here (german): http://www.golem.de/0503/36931.html

CU ActionNews

PS: Searched for this topic already but didn't find anything ... delete this if this topic already exists .

incinerator · 2005-03-15 15:40:38

You probably should have looked at the Arch Linux package database first.

It is located at the Arch Linux website and offers to mark packages to be "out of date". As soon as a new upstream version of a specific package is released you can set this flag for that package. The maintainer will then be automatically notified.

For acroread this has already been done, therefore the package maintainer should already know about it.

Cheers,
Dominik

ActionNews · 2005-03-15 19:13:19

Oh sorry ... didn't knew that.

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incinerator · 2005-03-15 19:29:47

Nothing to be sorry about, afaik this is not explicitly documented anywhere. I found out about it by accident myself. Also, it probably doesn't do any harm to let the maintainer know there is demand for the new upstream version ;-)

Cheers,
Dominik

zeppelin · 2005-03-15 23:21:23

acroread is non free.
try to use sudo pacman -S evince
it's GTK2 and it has search and copies/pastes text and stuff
what else do you want?

nuopus · 2005-03-15 23:44:40

Let me know what you guys think of this pkgbuild for adobe acrobat 7.0. Please let me know if you think anything should be changed. At the moment there is a .desktop file with icon and the plugin works. I do not know where to put the kde desktop file so it was not included. If anyone knows .. please let me know.

Here it is:

# Contributor: Christopher Cox <nuopus@gmail.com>

pkgname=acroread
pkgver=7.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing PDF files"
url="http://www.adobe.com"
license="NON-FREE"
depends=()
makedepends=()
conflicts=()
replaces=('acroread=<5.0.10')
source=(ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/7x/7.0/enu/AdbeRdr70_linux_enu.tar.gz)
md5sums=()

build() {
  mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/opt/mozilla-plugins
  mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/share/{applications,pixmaps}
  mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/bin
  tar xzf $startdir/src/AdbeRdr70_linux_enu.tar.gz -C $startdir/pkg/opt
  cd $startdir/pkg/opt/AdobeReader
  tar xf COMMON.TAR
  tar xf ILINXR.TAR
  rm COMMON.TAR ILINXR.TAR INSTALL
  cp $startdir/pkg/opt/AdobeReader/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so $startdir/pkg/opt/mozilla-plugins
  cp $startdir/pkg/opt/AdobeReader/Resource/Support/AdobeReader_GNOME.desktop $startdir/pkg/usr/share/applications
  cp $startdir/pkg/opt/AdobeReader/Resource/Icons/AdobeReader.png $startdir/pkg/usr/share/pixmaps
  echo -e "cd /opt/AdobeReadern./bin/acroread 4461 4462 4463 4464 4465 4466" > $startdir/pkg/usr/bin/acroread
  chmod 755 $startdir/pkg/usr/bin/acroread
}

EDIT: Changed the $1 $2 in the creation of the small acroread script to be 4461 because it was taking $1 as a variable.... who would have guessed! LOL :-)

incinerator · 2005-03-16 13:39:46

zeppelin wrote:

acroread is non free.
try to use sudo pacman -S evince
it's GTK2 and it has search and copies/pastes text and stuff
what else do you want?

View DRM protected PDFs for instance, without (commiting the criminal offense of) removing the DRM protection from the file.

Cheers,
Dominik

nggalai · 2005-03-16 14:33:10

zeppelin wrote:

acroread is non free.
try to use sudo pacman -S evince
it's GTK2 and it has search and copies/pastes text and stuff
what else do you want?

Sensible font rendering. I have to handle lots of PDF with custom fonts (stuff other than, say, Arial or Times New Roman ); only acroread renders them correctly. KPDF, evince, xpdf etc. don't even render Garamond correctly every time ...

I still use evince for PDF reading, but printing / reviewing? acroread, please.

93,
-Sascha.rb

torindan2 · 2005-03-17 09:10:34

zeppelin wrote:

acroread is non free.
try to use sudo pacman -S evince
it's GTK2 and it has search and copies/pastes text and stuff
what else do you want?

It is not GTK2 only... it's GNOME application

$ pacman -S evince

Targets: gnome-common-2.8.0-9 libgnomecanvas-2.10.0-1 portmap-5beta-9
         fam-2.7.0-3 orbit2-2.12.1-1 libbonobo-2.8.1-1 gconf-2.10.0-1
         gnome-mime-data-2.4.2-1 dbus-0.23.2-3 libcap-1.10-1 hal-0.4.7-1
         howl-0.9.10-1 gnome-vfs-2.10.0-1 libgnome-2.10.0-1 libbonoboui-2.8.1-2
         gnome-keyring-0.4.2-1 libgnomeui-2.10.0-1 libgnomeprint-2.10.1-1
         hicolor-icon-theme-0.5-1 gnome-icon-theme-2.10.0-1
         libgnomeprintui-2.10.1-1 libpixman-0.1.4-1 glitz-0.4.0-1 cairo-0.4.0-1
         poppler-0.1.2-1 evince-0.1.9-1

Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n] n

Also there and are some PDFs which I can't see with Xpdf.
Evince is based on poppler which is based on xpdf ... so I assume that evince will not display them properly.

iphitus · 2005-03-17 10:31:05

this adobe one is also faster and more responsive.

and it has the browser plugin which is cool

nuopus · 2005-03-17 13:42:30

LOL Ask and you shal receive! I guess you would not know the real difference in Acrobat 7 unless you had to use it in a professional environment. I need this software for all of the points mentioned ... but others may just need a BASIC pdf reader ... and things like evince and gpdf may be "good enough".

aCoder · 2005-03-17 21:38:19

nuopus, the md5sum is missing in your pkgbuild, you really should add it.

iBertus · 2005-03-17 21:49:55

The interface still need lots of work before it will be upto par with some of the open source readers. First, they should ditch the MDI style interface, which looks completely out of place. It's a pretty good product for the most part. Reads PDFs much faster than the other readers I've tried. Fonts look better too.

nuopus · 2005-03-17 22:34:34

aCoder wrote:

nuopus, the md5sum is missing in your pkgbuild, you really should add it.

Okay I will .... as soon as I get home. ;-)

aCoder · 2005-03-18 00:32:31

I just installed using nuopus' PKGBUILD, and it went fine. This really is a huge improvement over 5, and is much more useful than the various free incarnations, IMO.

MillTek · 2005-03-18 04:54:16

How do you install using the PKGBUILD??

Thanks,

Jim

nuopus · 2005-03-18 06:55:05

MillTek wrote:

How do you install using the PKGBUILD??

Thanks,

Jim

1. su to gain root priviledges.

2. create a directory to store your package builds. I created a directory called acroread inside the /var/abs/local directory, but you can easily create this anywhere ... possibly inside an abs directory in your home.

3. Copy and paste the PKGBUILD text into a new file called PKGBUILD inside the new directory. (eg. /var/abs/local/acroread).

4. Run the makepkg command inside the directory containing the PKGBUILD file. This will download the sources, do the build stuff then create an appropriate Arch package you can install. It will be called acroread-7.0-1.pkg.tar.gz.

5. Install the new Arch package using pacman with the -A switch. example: pacman -A acroread-7.0-1.pkg.tar.gz.

6. Enjoy!

I hope this helps you out. If there is a standard convention we should use in Arch, maybe someone more experienced could clarify ... I am new to Arch myself. You never know ... someone may say creating an abs dir inside your home to store the pkgbuilds is a bad idea! ;-)

MillTek · 2005-03-18 13:57:01

Thanks nuopus. The new version is really improved.

Jim

stonecrest · 2005-03-18 18:03:23

This is such an improvement over version 5, thanks.

By the way, does anyone else get an error on running acroread? I get "There was an error while loading the plug-in 'PPKLite.api'. The plug-in failed to initialize." I can press OK and everything seems to work fine but I get this error msg everytime, it's kind of annoying.

MillTek · 2005-03-18 19:28:29

no errors here.

Jim

kakabaratruskia · 2005-03-18 20:20:36

This thing is fast. It's faster than anything else I've tried. It's a lot faster than acrobat reader 5.0, and also than any acrobat I've used in windows. The only problem is that the pkg is really big.

stonecrest · 2005-03-18 20:58:27

Apparently I should have read the README file that comes with acroread :oops:

README wrote:

PPKLite.api Failed to Load
PPKLite requires the OpenLDAP package to be installed on the system,
and fails to initialize in its absence. If you get this error when acroread
starts up, you will need to install the LDAP libraries (OpenLDAP package).
If PPKLite still fails to load, make a link to the installed libldap.so.X and
liblber.so.X in <Installation Directory>/Reader/intellinux/lib with the names
'libldap.so' and 'liblber.so'.

I don't really know what LDAP is (I googled briefly but it was all Greek to me heh) but that fixed my problem.

nuopus · 2005-03-18 21:27:19

kakabaratruskia wrote:

This thing is fast. It's faster than anything else I've tried. It's a lot faster than acrobat reader 5.0, and also than any acrobat I've used in windows. The only problem is that the pkg is really big.

The Arch pkg is actually very close to the size of the Acrobat 7 distribution. It is 39 megs before the pkg and 39megs when it is all packages up.

phrakture · 2005-03-18 21:32:36

there's a windows trick to simply delete a bunch of the *.api files to make acrobat pop up quicker... I can't recall which ones are safe to delete, but they're all obscure and a case-by-case basis

nuopus · 2005-03-19 03:10:54

phrakture wrote:

there's a windows trick to simply delete a bunch of the *.api files to make acrobat pop up quicker... I can't recall which ones are safe to delete, but they're all obscure and a case-by-case basis

Those files are kind of like plugins that provide different features like DRM and features in files made with the newer adobe acrobat. Not good to just remove them in case you need them .... unless you do not use acrobat reader in a professional environment and do not nead such features.

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