March 14, 2005
Adobe Reader for UNIX Read Me

Welcome to the Adobe Reader 7.0 Read Me.

Adobe Reader 7.0 is the free viewing companion to Adobe Acrobat 7.0.
Adobe Reader lets you view, navigate and print Portable Document Format (PDF)
files. Adobe Acrobat 7.0 is a complete solution for creating, enhancing, 
reviewing, editing, and sharing information in PDF. 

To learn more about Adobe Acrobat 7.0, visit 
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat 
 
This Read Me contains information on:
New for Adobe Reader 7.0

System Requirements 

Installation Instructions 
 
Troubleshooting Issues
 
Keyboard Shortcuts

New for Adobe Reader 7.0

System Requirements:

System Requirements for Adobe Reader 7.0 for Linux
- 32-bit Intel Pentium-class processor 
- Linux kernel 2.4 or higher
- GLIBC version 2.3 or higher
- 128 MB of RAM (256 recommended) 
- 110 MB of available hard disk space 
- Additional 40 MB of hard-disk space for Asian fonts (optional) 
- Supported Linux Distributions:
	o Red Hat Linux AS 3.0 2.4.21, 4.0 2.6
	o Red Hat Linux ES 3.0 2.4.21, 4.0 2.6
	o Red Hat Linux WS 3.02.4.21, 4.0 2.6
	o Red Hat Linux Desktop
	o Red Hat Linux 9.0 2.4.20-6
	o SUSE Enterprise Server 9X 2.6
	o SUSE Professional 9.2 2.6.4
	o Novell Linux Desktop (9.x) 2.6.4
	o Turbolinux 10 Desktop 2.6
	o Red Flag Linux Desktop 4.0
 

Web Browser Support
PDF files may be viewed within the following browsers:
	o Mozilla 1.7.3, 1.8
	o Netscape 7
	o Firefox 1.0


Installation Instructions 
 
Installing and Uninstalling Adobe Reader 7.0 for Linux 
 
To install Adobe Reader 7.0, follow these steps: 
 
- RPM Installer:
	1 Make sure you have at least 110 MB of available disk space 
	2 Run "rpm -i AdobeReader_enu-7.0.0-1.i386.rpm"

	To uninstall Adobe Reader 7.0, run the following command:
	"rpm -e AdobeReader_enu"

- Tarball Installer:
	1 Make sure you have at least 110 MB of available disk space 
	2 Run "tar -zxvf AdbeRdr70_linux_enu.tar.gz"
	3 Run the "INSTALL" script in the "AdobeReader" directory thus created
 
	To uninstall Adobe Reader 7.0, simply delete the directory 
	where it was installed. 

Installion of the Browser plugin (not done by default):
- To install the browser plugin, you would need to execute the script
  "<INSTALL_PATH>/Browser/install_browser_plugin". Before doing so,
  please go through "<INSTALL_PATH>/Browser/Browser_Plugin_HowTo.txt" for 
  details.

  
Installation Issues 
 
SUSE 9.2 / Mandrake 10.1 Installation Issue
There is a problem with the Adobe Reader RPM installer for SUSE 9.2 and 
Mandrake 10.1 .  The install ("rpm -i AdobeReader_enu-7.0.0-1.i386.rpm") 
does not succeed and reports a failed dependency on "libcurl". The workaround 
is to install Adobe Reader with the "--nodeps" RPM option.  The complete
command will be:
   "rpm -i --nodeps AdobeReader_enu-7.0.0-1.i386.rpm"

  
Troubleshooting Issues

Red Flag Linux Issue 
Adobe Reader fails to launch on Red Flag Linux 4.1 due to a known bug in
GLib.  This happens when trying to load accessibility related modules.  This 
problem can be fixed by either upgrading to a later version of GLib, or by 
commenting the line "export GTK_MODULES" in the "acroread" script located in 
the "bin" directory.

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'.

Some System Fonts do not display in Properties Window/Toolbar
Adobe Reader searches for system fonts in the directory list specified in the
PSRESOURCEPATH environment variable, in addition to some predefined system
directories.  If your system has several additional font directories which
Adobe Reader may not be searching, you can add those directories to the 
PSRESOURCEPATH environment variable before launching Adobe Reader.

CJK Text Display of bolded text when magnification is applied 
Some CJK bolded characters may be blurred if the original application 
created the bolded text with synthetic bolding. If the Smooth Text and 
Use CoolType preferences in the Page Display preference panel are turned 
off, when the document is magnified you may see some white areas or 
cracks. Acrobat 4.x writes a character four times to achieve bolding, 
and for some documents, such text may appear as four lines of text 
instead of appearing as bold text. In Acrobat 5.0, synthetic bolding is 
used. Adobe recommends turning on the Smooth Text and Use 
CoolType preferences in the Display preference panel to avoid seeing 
white areas or cracks when the bolded text is magnified. [418447]  
 
Find Dialog - Using Find to Locate Unicode Characters 
You can use Find to locate Unicode characters within a PDF 
document. To do this, add a "\u" in front of the Unicode character for 
which you want to search. For example, to search for the Unicode 
equivalent of the ASCII character "A" , enter "\u0041" in the Find 
dialog. For some CJK characters, such as Unicode "4e01", you can 
specify "\u4e01".[413632] 
  
Stretching/Skewing of Page Text on some systems
You may face some stretching/skewing effect on the page display on certain
systems.  This problem can be resolved by going to Edit > Preference > Page
Display tab, and setting the "Custom Resolution" to the currently displayed
System setting.

Search does not complete for socket files
If the specified search path contains a socket file (typical paths are /tmp
or $HOME/), the search will not complete.  Make sure that the specified path
contains only regular files, and no socket files.

Sending Mail Using Mutt
If a terminal window flashes and disappears when the selected email client is
mutt, adding the line "set autoedit=no" to $HOME/.muttrc would enable sending
mail using mutt.

Evolution Crashes on Sending Mail
This happens with earlier versions of Evolution. If Evolution crashes on
sending mail (when Evolution is the selected Email client), try keeping
Evolution running in the background. If it still crashes, please upgrade to
the latest version of Evolution.

Accessibility is Not Active
The Adobe Reader checks the gconf registry to find if accessibility support is 
enabled on a system. If gconftool-2 is not available on a system, accessibility 
support is turned off in the Reader. If your system does not have gconftool-2 
and you wish to use the accessibility features of Adobe Reader, change the
line 'ACRO_AT_ACTIVE="false"' to 'ACRO_AT_ACTIVE="true"' in the file
<Installation Directory>/Reader/bin/acroread, in the block 
'if [ "$IS_GCONF_TOOL" = "no" ]' near the end of the file.

Enabling Document Accessibility
1. Turn on accessibility support on your system using gconf-editor or 
gconftool-2 to set the key /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility to true.
2. Enable the keyboard selection cursor (F7 toggles the cursor. It can also be
enabled through "Edit -> Preferences -> Accessibility -> Always display the
keyboard selection cursor").
3. Check the option "Edit -> Preferences -> Reading -> Enable document accessibility".

Hong Kong Character Set and Comments and Bookmarks 
Acrobat Reader 5.0 supports the Hong Kong character set for text in a 
PDF file. It is an extension to the Adobe Chinese Traditional character 
set. If you would like to view PDF files that contain text using the Hong 
Kong character set, please install support for the Chinese Traditional 
character by installing the Chinese Traditional Language Pack. Since 
the Hong Kong character set is not part of the standard system fonts 
you will not be able to comment or create bookmarks using Hong 
Kong characters.[407877] 
   
Adobe Reader Needs Access to pwd 
Adobe Reader will not run correctly from a directory where the "pwd" 
command fails.

Removing Previous Preferences
We recommend you remove the file $HOME/.acrorc and the directory $HOME/.adobe 
(if they exist) before running Adobe Reader 7.0 for the first time.  
This ensures the default preference settings are used when you first run 
Adobe Reader. This is not, however, a necessity, and may actually be 
undesirable if you wish to continue running older versions of Adobe Reader.

Recent Files Names 
Files listed in the File menu are "recent files" and depend upon exact 
path names. If you open a file in a session using automounter and the 
automounter goes down, attempting to open the "recent file" will give a 
"No such file or directory" error.  This also occurs when the file is 
moved, renamed, or Reader is run from a different machine that does 
not have the same file systems mounted.

Prevent Temporary Files from Showing Up in Recent File List 
To prevent temporary files (for instance opened from the Web) from 
appearing in the "recent files" list, set your mailcap entry as follows:
   
    application/pdf;acroread -tempFile %s

Writing the Preferences File 
Adobe Reader does not warn the user when the preferences file cannot be written.
Please make sure '$HOME/.adobe' is a writable directory if you wish to save 
preferences.

Window Managers 
We have tested with KDE and GNOME environments.

Printing Password-protected PDFs 
Users cannot print password-protected PDF documents to PostScript from the 
command line even though they are able to print the files from Adobe Reader.

Heterogenous File Server Environment 
When operating in a heterogenous network environment using Novell 
servers, we recommend you avoid giving PDF files long names (greater 
than 32 characters). A Novell server displays the long file name to the 
user of a Macintosh computer, but MacOS prevents Adobe Reader from 
opening the file. This is not a problem on Windows.

Command line help 
At the command line, type 'acroread -help' or 'acroread -helpall' for 
more information on command line options. Note that when using these 
command lines you must still supply a DISPLAY variable if one is not 
already defined in your environment. 

Pasting Non-ISO8859 Characters 
Characters in PDF files that are not part of the ISO8859 encodings will 
not display when the text is selected and pasted elsewhere. This is most 
notable with the Registered and Trademark symbols. Printing is not 
affected and will work fine.
   
Printing: no document printed and/or error in lp log 
When you lp foo.ps, it creates a symbolic link from the spool file to the 
foo.ps file.  This saves space on the file system.  Unfortunately, 
Adobe Reader creates a temporary file to spool, writes the PostScript out, 
and then deletes the temporary file before the lpd process can get hold 
of it.  The solution is to include the "-c" option (copy) on the lp or lpr 
command in the print dialog box.  This forces the lp process to copy 
the file to the spool area instead of making a link.

Launching external applications / Security 
PDF files may contain instructions to launch an external application or to 
open a non-PDF file.  To enhance the security of PDF files, Adobe Reader 
will prompt users with an alert before launching an external application, 
an executable file or a command. The alert will say: 
     "Adobe Reader is about to launch this application: "    
     [Application] "Allow this action (yes) or all actions to all 
applications (all)?"  
followed by three buttons, "Yes", "No", and "All".
    - Choosing "Yes" will allow only this instance of this action.  
    - Choosing "No" will prevent this instance of this action.
    - Choosing "All" will allow all instances of all actions, thus disabling 
the alert until Adobe Reader is exited and restarted.
 
Adobe Reader Search 
If you want to create full text search indexes that can be reliably used 
across platforms, you must use ISO 9660 file naming conventions for 
the indexed files (8.3 uppercase, restricted character set).  If you don't 
use such names, the UNIX Reader will attempt to guess what the Unix 
filenames are. This causes delays in searching, and may result in the file 
not being found.

Select Tool and Snapshot Tool
The select tool can be used to select text in the document, and the snapshot
tool can be used to select some area in the page, which is automatically copied
to the clipboard.

Cannot Submit Forms From Web Browsers if multiple instances are running
Submitting forms on the web will not work if Netscape (or other Web Browser) 
has warned you that it found a lock file in the .Netscape  folder. This 
warning (which occurs when you first launch Netscape) usually means you have 
another copy of Netscape running. You may fix this problem by insuring that 
only one copy of Netscape is running. If a lock file is left around because 
of a Netscape crash, you may simply delete the .Netscape/lock file.


Keyboard Shortcuts:
Hot Keys or Accelerators:
Access menu bar with <ALT>, then one of these keys:
f - File menu
e - Edit menu
v - View menu
d - Document menu
t - Tools menu
w - Window menu
h - Help menu

Navigation Tools:
Page Up for previous screen
Page Down for next screen
Left Arrow for previous page
Right Arrow for next page
Up Arrow to scroll up
Down Arrow to scroll down
CTRL L to show or hide full screen
SHIFT CTRL N to go to a specific page

Function Keys:
F8 to show or hide toolbars

Editing Documents:
CTRL A to select all
CTRL C to copy
CTRL M to zoom to
CTRL O to open
CTRL P to print
CTRL Q to quit
CTRL W to close a document
CTRL 0 to fit in window
CTRL 1 to fit actual size
CTRL 2 to fit width
CTRL 3 to fit visible
CTRL + to zoom in
CTRL - to zoom out
SHIFT CTRL A to unselect all
SHIFT CTRL P for page setup
SHIFT CTRL S for save as
SHIFT CTRL + to rotate clockwise
SHIFT CTRL - to rotate counterclockwise

Document Accessibility
F7 to toggle keyboard caret

Searching:
CTRL F to find
SHIFT CTRL F to open Search Panel

Document Information and Preferences:
CTRL D to bring up document summary dialog box
CTRL K to bring up General Preferences dialog box

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