Re: [gentoo-user] acrobat reader

[Jack]

On 2021.09.22 15:39, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:

On 9/22/21 1:29 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> On 9/22/21 1:19 PM, Jack wrote:
>> On 2021.09.22 15:06, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
>>> I have a pdf fillable form which I can only open in acrobat  
reader on Windows.

>>>
>>> Which package do I use to read these form on Gentoo?
>> You should be able to read them with any PDF reader.  Not all  
readers will allow you to fill in the forms and save with the  
inserted data.  I use Okular for that, but the dependencies may be a  
lot if you don't already run KDE.  I wouldn't be surprised if the  
Gnome PDF reader (evince?) can also do it.

>>
>> Jack
>
> I have evince, it will not open it.
>
> This is the form I'm trying to open:
>
> https://cfr.forms.gov.ab.ca/Form/AHC0102.pdf

I can open this file on Windows Acrobat Reader but when I try to  
save/print it as a PDF file via PDFcreator I'm getting some  
Ghoastscript error.
Yes, I see that okular (21.04.3) won't open it.  Actually, okular does  
say "This document has XFA forms, which are currently unsupported.   
It's also odd that the message which is displayed implies that Acrobat  
Reader is available for Linux, even though it's not available.


How is Ghostscript involved on Windows?

Is there any hope of complaining to the Alberta government that there  
is no access to the form without being forced to use proprietary  
software?  (Probably not, but it's a thought.)


Finally, if you search for "acrobat xfa forms linux" you will find some  
suggestions.

Re: [gentoo-user] acrobat reader

[tastytea]

On 2021-09-22 13:29-0600 the...@sys-concept.com wrote:

> On 9/22/21 1:19 PM, Jack wrote:
> > On 2021.09.22 15:06, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:  
> >> I have a pdf fillable form which I can only open in acrobat reader
> >> on Windows.
> >>
> >> Which package do I use to read these form on Gentoo?  
> > You should be able to read them with any PDF reader.  Not all
> > readers will allow you to fill in the forms and save with the
> > inserted data.  I use Okular for that, but the dependencies may be
> > a lot if you don't already run KDE.  I wouldn't be surprised if the
> > Gnome PDF reader (evince?) can also do it.
> > 
> > Jack  
> 
> I have evince, it will not open it.
> 
> This is the form I'm trying to open:
> 
> https://cfr.forms.gov.ab.ca/Form/AHC0102.pdf
> 

Okular 21.04.3 won't work either, I got a message box claiming I need
a newer version of Acrobat Reader and the content of the PDF is a
placeholder that reads “[…] your PDF viewer may not be able to display
this type of document […]”.

A warning above the document says that the document contains XFA forms
that are not supported.

Kind regards, tastytea

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Re: [gentoo-user] acrobat reader

[Charlotte Delenk]

On 9/22/21 21:29, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:

On 9/22/21 1:19 PM, Jack wrote:

On 2021.09.22 15:06, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:

I have a pdf fillable form which I can only open in acrobat reader on Windows.

Which package do I use to read these form on Gentoo?

You should be able to read them with any PDF reader.  Not all readers will 
allow you to fill in the forms and save with the inserted data.  I use Okular 
for that, but the dependencies may be a lot if you don't already run KDE.  I 
wouldn't be surprised if the Gnome PDF reader (evince?) can also do it.

Jack

I have evince, it will not open it.

This is the form I'm trying to open:

https://cfr.forms.gov.ab.ca/Form/AHC0102.pdf

The javascript code embedded inside explicitely checks for acrobat 
reader version 9.0 or newer, as well as "XFA" (whatever that is) version 
2.0 or newer. Maybe try installing app-emulation/wine and then running 
acrobat reader using wine?


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Re: [gentoo-user] acrobat reader

[thelma]

On 9/22/21 1:29 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> On 9/22/21 1:19 PM, Jack wrote:
>> On 2021.09.22 15:06, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
>>> I have a pdf fillable form which I can only open in acrobat reader on 
>>> Windows.
>>>
>>> Which package do I use to read these form on Gentoo?
>> You should be able to read them with any PDF reader.  Not all readers will 
>> allow you to fill in the forms and save with the inserted data.  I use 
>> Okular for that, but the dependencies may be a lot if you don't already run 
>> KDE.  I wouldn't be surprised if the Gnome PDF reader (evince?) can also do 
>> it.
>>
>> Jack
> 
> I have evince, it will not open it.
> 
> This is the form I'm trying to open:
> 
> https://cfr.forms.gov.ab.ca/Form/AHC0102.pdf

I can open this file on Windows Acrobat Reader but when I try to save/print it 
as a PDF file via PDFcreator I'm getting some Ghoastscript error.
 

Re: [gentoo-user] acrobat reader

[thelma]

On 9/22/21 1:19 PM, Jack wrote:
> On 2021.09.22 15:06, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
>> I have a pdf fillable form which I can only open in acrobat reader on 
>> Windows.
>>
>> Which package do I use to read these form on Gentoo?
> You should be able to read them with any PDF reader.  Not all readers will 
> allow you to fill in the forms and save with the inserted data.  I use Okular 
> for that, but the dependencies may be a lot if you don't already run KDE.  I 
> wouldn't be surprised if the Gnome PDF reader (evince?) can also do it.
> 
> Jack

I have evince, it will not open it.

This is the form I'm trying to open:

https://cfr.forms.gov.ab.ca/Form/AHC0102.pdf

Re: [gentoo-user] acrobat reader

[Franz Trischberger]

Jack: okular (and poppler apps in general) won't open some (all?) files
with filled in forms.
I had many such files in the past where I had to use acrobat...

Am Mi., 22. Sept. 2021 um 22:19 Uhr schrieb Jack <
ostrof...@users.sourceforge.net>:

> On 2021.09.22 15:06, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> > I have a pdf fillable form which I can only open in acrobat reader on
> > Windows.
> >
> > Which package do I use to read these form on Gentoo?
> You should be able to read them with any PDF reader.  Not all readers
> will allow you to fill in the forms and save with the inserted data.  I
> use Okular for that, but the dependencies may be a lot if you don't
> already run KDE.  I wouldn't be surprised if the Gnome PDF reader
> (evince?) can also do it.
>
> Jack
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] acrobat reader

[Jack]

On 2021.09.22 15:06, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
I have a pdf fillable form which I can only open in acrobat reader on  
Windows.


Which package do I use to read these form on Gentoo?
You should be able to read them with any PDF reader.  Not all readers  
will allow you to fill in the forms and save with the inserted data.  I  
use Okular for that, but the dependencies may be a lot if you don't  
already run KDE.  I wouldn't be surprised if the Gnome PDF reader  
(evince?) can also do it.


Jack

[gentoo-user] acrobat reader

[thelma]

I have a pdf fillable form which I can only open in acrobat reader on Windows.

Which package do I use to read these form on Gentoo?

[gentoo-user] Acrobat reader problem

[Peter Wood]

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Hi,
I have just installed my first amd64 gentoo. I took the world file of
one of my x86 installs and did an emerge -e world. Now everythin seems
to work fine apart from acroread. There seems to be a font problem:
instead of the text normally displayed in the menubar, all I can see
here is black squares. My locale is UTF-8. My system info is listed
below. Any ideas?

Peter

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Re: [gentoo-user] acrobat reader can not run by normal user

[Richard Fish]

On 6/25/06, fei huang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On 6/25/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED]  wrote:
I compared all the open() system calls between outputs generated by root and
the normal user, and found something strange:  both root and the normal user
version trying to open libstdc++.so.6, after checking /etc/ld.so.conf, what
have made me confused is the root
version choose /usr/lib/libstdc++-v3/ thus the normal user choose
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.6/, probably this is the
answer to the crash, but I just wonder what make them having different
choices with the same ld.so.conf?


The user environment can override ld.so.conf.  Try env | grep LD as
both the normal user and root.

-Richard
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Re: [gentoo-user] acrobat reader can not run by normal user

[fei huang]

On 6/26/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 6/25/06, fei huang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/25/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED]  wrote:
 I compared all the open() system calls between outputs generated by root and the normal user, and found something strange:both root and the normal user version trying to open libstdc++.so.6, after checking /etc/ld.so.conf, what
 have made me confused is the root version choose /usr/lib/libstdc++-v3/ thus the normal user choose /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.6/, probably this is the answer to the crash, but I just wonder what make them having different
 choices with the same ld.so.conf?The user environment can override ld.so.conf.Try env | grep LD asboth the normal user and root.mm, I have totally forgotten those tricks, will check it back home. 
thanks a lot Richard.. -Richard--
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Re: [gentoo-user] acrobat reader can not run by normal user

[fei huang]

unfortunately, no unusual environment settings found, but there is a very important message that I haven't noticed. that is the libstdc++ root loads is libstdc++.so.5, however the user load the version libstdc++.so.6, so that's why they goes to /usr/lib/libstdc++-v3/ and /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-li8nux-gnu/4.3.6/ respectively.
still the question is how could this happen? no special environment variables, if the acroread has been compiled with version 5, it should be failed even for the root, just odd.
thanks, daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] acrobat reader can not run by normal user

[fei huang]

On 6/25/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
On 6/23/06, fei huang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure when did this issue arise, perhaps after a update of my glibc
 or whatever packages that I could not remember,but seems ok with root
 somehow, anyway, I used strace to track the running process and get the following message ( the last few lines): ... open(/lib/libgcc_s.so.1, O_RDONLY)= 4read(4,
 \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\200\25..., 512) = 512Hmm, acroread doesn't link directly against libgcc_s.so.However, itwill pay attention to your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file, and possibly attempt to
load an engine to blend with a KDE environment.For example, I get:12021 open(/usr/lib/gconv/ISO8859-1.so, O_RDONLY) = 612021 open(/home/rjf/.gtkrc-2.0, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 6

12021 open(/usr/share/themes/Qt/gtk-2.0/gtkrc, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 712021 open(/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/engines/libqtengine.so, O_RDONLY) = 812021 open(/usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3, O_RDONLY) = 8
12021 open(/etc/ld.so.cache, O_RDONLY) = 812021 open(/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/libstdc++.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 812021 open(/usr/lib/libmng.so.1, O_RDONLY) = 8
12021 open(/usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62, O_RDONLY) = 8
12021 open(/usr/lib/libpng.so.3, O_RDONLY) = 812021 open(/usr/lib/libXft.so.2, O_RDONLY) = 812021 open(/usr/lib/libSM.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 812021 open(/usr/lib/libICE.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 8
12021 open(/lib/libgcc_s.so.1, O_RDONLY) = 8Does it still fail if you mv ~/.gtkrc-2.0 ~/._gtkrc-2.0?yes, it failed as always. I've fould the problem has nothing to do with 
gtkrc-2.0,Have you tried a revdep-rebuild?Did you recently change gccversions?Do you use prelinking, and if so, have you done a prelink
-aq?I don't use prelink.. , and even don't know what it isI compared all the open() system calls between outputs generated by root and the normal user, and found something strange: both root and the normal user version trying to open libstdc++.so.6, after checking /etc/ld.so.conf, what have made me confused is the root 
version choose /usr/lib/libstdc++-v3/ thus the normal user choose /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.6/, probably this is the answer to the crash, but I just wonder what make them having different choices with the same 
ld.so.conf?thank you.. 
-Richard--
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Re: [gentoo-user] acrobat reader can not run by normal user

[Richard Fish]

On 6/23/06, fei huang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I'm not sure when did this issue arise, perhaps after a update of my glibc
or whatever packages that I could not remember,  but seems ok with root
somehow, anyway, I used strace to track the running process and get the
following message ( the last few lines):

...
open(/lib/libgcc_s.so.1, O_RDONLY)= 4
 read(4,
\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\200\25...,
512) = 512


Hmm, acroread doesn't link directly against libgcc_s.so.  However, it
will pay attention to your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file, and possibly attempt to
load an engine to blend with a KDE environment.  For example, I get:

12021 open(/usr/lib/gconv/ISO8859-1.so, O_RDONLY) = 6
12021 open(/home/rjf/.gtkrc-2.0, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 6
12021 open(/usr/share/themes/Qt/gtk-2.0/gtkrc, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 7
12021 open(/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/engines/libqtengine.so, O_RDONLY) = 8
12021 open(/usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3, O_RDONLY) = 8
12021 open(/etc/ld.so.cache, O_RDONLY) = 8
12021 open(/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/libstdc++.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 8
12021 open(/usr/lib/libmng.so.1, O_RDONLY) = 8
12021 open(/usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62, O_RDONLY) = 8
12021 open(/usr/lib/libpng.so.3, O_RDONLY) = 8
12021 open(/usr/lib/libXft.so.2, O_RDONLY) = 8
12021 open(/usr/lib/libSM.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 8
12021 open(/usr/lib/libICE.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 8
12021 open(/lib/libgcc_s.so.1, O_RDONLY) = 8

Does it still fail if you mv ~/.gtkrc-2.0 ~/._gtkrc-2.0?

Have you tried a revdep-rebuild?  Did you recently change gcc
versions?  Do you use prelinking, and if so, have you done a prelink
-aq?

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[gentoo-user] acrobat reader can not run by normal user

[fei huang]

I'm not sure when did this issue arise, perhaps after a update of my glibc or whatever packages that I could not remember, but seems ok with root somehow, anyway, I used strace to track the running process and get the following message ( the last few lines):
...open(/lib/libgcc_s.so.1, O_RDONLY) = 4
read(4, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\200\25..., 512) = 512fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=168291, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 34052, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 4, 0) = 0xb6844000
madvise(0xb6844000, 34052, MADV_SEQUENTIAL|0x1) = 0mmap2(0xb684c000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 4, 0x7) = 0xb684c000
close(4) = 0gettimeofday({1151073643, 460980}, NULL) = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---exit_group(1) = ?
I'm sure that's not related with permissions, but no idea about how this would happen.hope the strace output for the root may help:
write(3, \31\0\v\0\3\0`\2\0\0\0\0! Y\267\3\0`\0021\2\0\\2\0..., 48) = 48read(3, \1\2\273\0\0\0\0\0\5\0\200\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\37\0\0\0\320..., 32) = 32
gettimeofday({1151073832, 21086}, NULL) = 0gettimeofday({1151073832, 21215}, NULL) = 0
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}], 1, 0) = 1
ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [64]) = 0read(3, \34\0\273\0\3\0\240\0020\2\0\0\240\345j\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0..., 64) = 64
write(3, \20\0\n\0\37\0`\2_ADOBE_ACROBAT_OPEN_FILE..., 40) = 40
read(3, \1\0\274\0\0\0\0\0002\2\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\37\0\0\0\320..., 32) = 32exit_group(0) = ?
thanks in advance..daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] Acrobat Reader 7

[Antoine]

 However, I understand some PDF's are encrypted and can only be read with
 adobes own reader.

xpdf (and offshoots) support decryption of at least some versions of pdf.
Cheers
Antoine

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Re: [gentoo-user] Acrobat Reader 7

[ZeeGeek]

On 5/17/05, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Each time I close Acrobat Reader 7, I get a *really annoying* messageasking whether I want to enable _javascript_s, which I don't and won't.This happens no matter what document has been read, or even when nodocument at all was opened.
Anyone knows a way to disable this *feature*?--Jorge Almeida--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing listIt's in Edit - Preferences - _javascript_, there's an option to enable or disable it.
-- http://zeegeek.blogspot.comhttp://ihome.ust.hk/~cs_snx/blog/ (for mainland)

Re: [gentoo-user] Acrobat Reader 7

[Jorge Almeida]

On Tue, 17 May 2005, ZeeGeek wrote:
On 5/17/05, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Each time I close Acrobat Reader 7, I get a *really annoying* message
asking whether I want to enable JavaScripts, which I don't and won't.
This happens no matter what document has been read, or even when no
document at all was opened.
Anyone knows a way to disable this *feature*?
--
Jorge Almeida
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It's in Edit - Preferences - JavaScript, there's an option to enable or
disable it.
Nope. It is there and it is disabled. The problem is that the program
keeps asking whether I want to enable it!

--
Jorge Almeida
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Re: [gentoo-user] Acrobat Reader 7

[fire-eyes]

On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 16:21 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote:

 Nope. It is there and it is disabled. The problem is that the program
 keeps asking whether I want to enable it!

I have read a few things on this issue, though I do not use the product.

It actually goes to a wider problem, where if javascript is on, docments
can call home to wherever they are told to. This bothers many people, so
they turn off javascript. Even if you don't mind that, turning off
javascript is just what many people want to do.

However it does exactly what you mentioned, annoying you over and over
again to turn it on.

I have not seen a workaround.

This comment is off topic, but I can't say I'm surprised, Adobe is a
pretty annoying company (we have had many extremely frustrating dealings
with them).

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Re: [gentoo-user] Acrobat Reader 7

[fire-eyes]

On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 09:20 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
 Has it annoyed you enough yet to turn on JavaScript?

Hopefully not, documents which have been written to do so can then
litrally call home.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Acrobat Reader 7

[Jorge Almeida]

On Tue, 17 May 2005, fire-eyes wrote:
On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 09:20 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
Has it annoyed you enough yet to turn on JavaScript?
Hopefully not, documents which have been written to do so can then
litrally call home.

I _will not_ enable JavaSpook.
What remains to be decided is whether I'll give up using Acrobat Reader.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Acrobat Reader 7

[Nicolai Beuermann]

Just go to .adobe/Acrobat/7.0/JavaScripts
and transform glob.settings.js into a symbolic to /dev/null

hope that helps
nico

Am Dienstag 17 Mai 2005 18:51 schrieb Jorge Almeida:
 On Tue, 17 May 2005, fire-eyes wrote:
  On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 09:20 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
  Has it annoyed you enough yet to turn on JavaScript?
 
  Hopefully not, documents which have been written to do so can then
  litrally call home.

 I _will not_ enable JavaSpook.

 What remains to be decided is whether I'll give up using Acrobat Reader.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Acrobat Reader 7

[Chris Prior]

cd ~/.adobe/Acrobat/7.0/JavaScripts 
mv glob.settings.js glob.settings.js.bak
ln -s /dev/null glob.settings.js

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Re: [gentoo-user] Acrobat Reader 7

[Jorge Almeida]

On Tue, 17 May 2005, Nicolai Beuermann wrote:
Just go to .adobe/Acrobat/7.0/JavaScripts
and transform glob.settings.js into a symbolic to /dev/null
hope that helps
It certainly does!
Thanks.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Acrobat Reader 7

[Nick Rout]

yeah thanks from me too.

this thread has alerted me to a problem i didn't know existed (as I had
js turned on) and has provided me with a fix.

sweet :-)

On Tue, 17 May 2005 21:27:46 +0100 (WEST)
Jorge Almeida wrote:

 On Tue, 17 May 2005, Nicolai Beuermann wrote:
 
  Just go to .adobe/Acrobat/7.0/JavaScripts
  and transform glob.settings.js into a symbolic to /dev/null
 
  hope that helps
 It certainly does!
 Thanks.
 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Acrobat Reader 7

[fire-eyes]

On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 17:51 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote:
 I _will not_ enable JavaSpook.
 
 What remains to be decided is whether I'll give up using Acrobat
 Reader.

I guess I don't see what is special about Acrobat's own reader. I have
problems with it because

1) It is Adobe
2) It is binary

However, I understand some PDF's are encrypted and can only be read with
adobes own reader.

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