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3. _K_n_o_w_n__P_r_o_b_l_e_m_s__a_n_d__W_o_r_k_a_r_o_u_n_d_s
+o If a pre-manufacturing release of the Acrobat Reader
has been installed on your system, it is advisable to
deinstall the Acrobat Reader prior to installing the
manufacturing release of this product.
+o If you have Acrobat Reader 1.0.1 installed, the Acrobat
Reader 2.1 installation may alter the older version's
icon in Icon Catalog. We strongly recommend that you
remove any previous Acrobat Reader installations prior
to installing Acrobat Reader 2.1. To de-install Acrobat
Reader 1.0.1 (the default installation location was
/usr/adobe):
+o as root
+o rm -rf /usr/adobe/AcroRaed_1.0.1
+o rm /usr/bin/acroread
+o /usr/sbin/iconbookedit -remove "Category:File
Name:/usr/adobe/AcroRead_1.0.1/bin/acroread"
-syspage Applications
Now you can install Acrobat Reader 2.1.
The reason this has to be done manually is because
Adobe's installation procedure for Acrobat Reader 1.0.1
bypassed Software Manager and instead an installation
script was used.
+o For users of Adobe Photoshop 3.0, Adobe Illustrator
5.5, or Type Installer:
The DPS-NX subsystem was shared between all of the
above Adobe products. Sadly, DPS-NX was not shipped as
a separate subsystem, but as part of the Acrobat Reader
1.0.1 product. This software packaging error causes
DPS-NX to be removed when upgrading to Acrobat Reader
2.1. If you are not running Photoshop or Illustrator
on your system, this is exactly what you want. But, if
you are ... you have lost your copy of DPS-NX.
So we have modified the Acrobat Reader 2.0 upgrade
process to do "the right thing". It will check if you
are running one of the above products, if so it will
not remove DPS-NX. However these checks will only work
if you have installed Photoshop and Illustrator in the
standard locations.
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If the Acrobat Reader 2.1 upgrade process does
incorrectly remove DPS-NX, you can recover from this
situation by following the steps below. These steps
involve re-installing the Acrobat Reader 1.0.1 to get
the copy of DPS_NX and then saving DPS_NX for later
use.
Steps to recover from losing DPS_NX:
+o Remove the Acrobat Reader 2.1
+o Re-install the Acrobat Reader 1.0.1
+o Save the DPS_NX product by moving the directory
(as root)
+o mv /usr/adobe/DPSNXBasic_2.1.1
/usr/adobe/DPSNXBasic_2.1.1.SAVE
+o Then re-install Acrobat Reader 2.1
+o Then Restore DPS_NX by moving the directory back
to it's proper location
+o mv /usr/adobe/DPSNXBasic_2.1.1.SAVE
/usr/adobe/DPSNXBasic_2.1.1
+o ln -s /usr/adobe/DPSNXBasic_2.1.1/bin/dpsnx.agent
/usr/bin/dpsnx.agent
+o This version of Acrobat Reader will be installed under
/usr/adobe by default. You should not do a diskless
client install if /usr/adobe is mounted as a read-only
file system. Please install this package on the server
machine only.
+o If Acrobat Reader is started from a directory that
cannot be determined then the launch will fail and
Reader may become interfaceless but still run. Please
run Reader from a directory that the "pwd" command can
stat.
+o Files listed in the File menu are "recent files" and
depend upon exact path names. If you open a file in a
session using and automounter and the automounter goes
down, attempting to open the "recent file" will give a
"No such file or directory" error.
+o Acrobat Reader does not warn the user when the
preferences file cannot be written. Please make sure
the '.acrorc' file in your home directory is writable
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if you wish to save preferences.
+o When exiting Full Screen mode, bookmark and thumbnail
views are not displayed. To display them, press the
appropriate button in the Tool Bar.
+o Users cannot convert secure PDF documents to PostScript
from the command line even though they are able to
print the files from Acrobat Reader.
+o We recommend you avoid giving PDF files long names
(greater than 32 characters). A Novell server displays
the long file name to a Macintosh user, but the
Macintosh Operating System prevents Acrobat from
opening the file. This is not a problem on Windows
because Novell truncates the name to 8.3 structure.
+o All cross-document links made from Windows list the
path as all uppercase letters. Acrobat Reader may not
be able to locate the file specified in the path if
UNIX sees the path in mixed case instead of all upper-
or lowercase.
+o Modal dialog boxes may appear to be "lost" behind the
main document window. When they are behind the main
window, they are still active and prevent the user from
doing anything. To bring the dialog to the front, click
anywhere in the main window. You can now dismiss the
dialog and proceed.
+o Using the desktop icons, it is possible to drag a PDF
file and drop it on the printer icon. This will cause
the PDF file to be printed.
However, there is a limitation with this icon level
printing request. In particular, only a 8 1/2" by 11"
paper size is supported. If your document has other
paper size requirements, please open the document with
the Acrobat Reader and print it directly.
+o It may not be possible to print multiple copies of the
same PDF file by using the "Copies" box in the print
dialog. On IRIX when mulitple copies are indicated in
the print dialog box, IRIX generates two files for the
print server - the actual print file and a control
file. The control file contains the information about
the number of copies. A BSD-based print server ignores
the control file if the printer for the job is not
directly connected to the print server.
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+o Some images are re-displayed with vertical white lines.
This bug only occurs when re-displaying particular 8-
bit images using the default visual and when the
Acrobat page cache user preference is enabled.
The user can avoid this bug in either of two ways: 1)
invoke acroread using 24-bit visual mode or 2)
disabling the page cache from the preferences menu.
+o For users of Irix 5.3:
Invoking acroread on the command line and specifying a
non-default visual (e.g. acroread -visual best) will
cause acroread to crash unless you have the SGI Motif
library patchSG0000705 installed.
+o If your network is configured using many symbolic
links, under IRIX 6.2 beta it may take the Open File
dialog box a long time to accept an event. Silicon
Graphics is aware of the problem and is working on it.
+o When listing PDF files in the Open File dialog box,
occasionally the PDF icon indication will not appear
for a particular PDF file. This is due to an inability
of the Open File dialog filter to parse out the extra,
Macintosh-specific information that indicates file
type. This is nothing to be concerned about.
+o Refer to /usr/adobe/AcroRead_2.1/Help/ReadMe-SGI.txt
for more miscellaneaous information.