Re: Adobe Acroread default installs is in Chinese

2002-06-06 Thread Net Llama!
What's wrong with using the RPM that Redhat provided? On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, bof wrote: I posted this on the Adobe site, but have not gotten an answer. I'm posting it here in hopes that someone else might have encountered and solved the problem. I'm running RH 7.2 - I think

Re: Adobe Acroread default installs is in Chinese

2002-06-06 Thread Myles Green
Are you sure you grabbed the english version? I have version 5.0.5 installed and it's in english... HTH Myles On June 6, 2002 11:49 pm, bof wrote: I posted this on the Adobe site, but have not gotten an answer. I'm posting it here in hopes that someone else might have encountered and solved

Re: Adobe Acroread default installs is in Chinese

2002-06-06 Thread bof
Yes. I just downloaded and installed it again, with the same problem. Myles Green wrote: Are you sure you grabbed the english version? I have version 5.0.5 installed and it's in english... ___ Linux-users mailing list -

Re: Adobe Acroread default installs is in Chinese

2002-06-06 Thread Net Llama!
Why are you assuming its *acrobat* that's horked, when the problem is with your box? Youv'e prolly got some fonts missing, or a default font set somewhere to some kind of japanese charset. On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, bof wrote: OK, I tried the 7.3 .rpm version, although it is for Acroread 4.05, and

Re: Adobe Acroread default installs is in Chinese

2002-06-06 Thread bof
OK, I tried the 7.3 .rpm version, although it is for Acroread 4.05, and had the same problem: it comes up in Japanese. The problem does not occur with Slackware 8.0. BTW, as I tried the 5.0.5 installation there. So it's got to be something somewhere in the font environment, but I've looked

Re: Adobe Acroread default installs is in Chinese

2002-06-06 Thread bof
Because everything else is working, and I did not have a problem until I installed Acroread. Net Llama! wrote: Why are you assuming its *acrobat* that's horked, when the problem is with your box? Youv'e prolly got some fonts missing, or a default font set somewhere to some kind of japanese

Re: Adobe Acroread default installs is in Chinese

2002-06-06 Thread Net Llama!
Don't you think that if there was a problem, as severe as this, with the RPM, that it would have been fixed by now? On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, bof wrote: Because everything else is working, and I did not have a problem until I installed Acroread. Net Llama! wrote: Why are you assuming its

Adobe Acroread default installs is in Chinese --- Solution

2002-06-06 Thread bof
Like so many other things in life, the problem turned out to be the operator, not the system. The problem arose from the way the fonts were set under KDE. Using the Control Center, I tried resetting everything to the default. This did not work, but after I reset the Look Feel - fonts to

Re: Adobe Acroread default installs is in Chinese

2002-06-06 Thread Joel Hammer
I just installed version 5.0 on my caldera 2.4 boxes. Installed without trouble, etc. I won't try it on my RH 7.1 box. That is a weak performer. Which web site did you get yours from? Mine came form Adobe. There are a lot of web sites which let you download acrobat. You might not have gotten a