Re: Success with Acrobat Reader 7.0 (tweaking module pathes)

[Jörg Ebeling <joerg.ebeling@shbe.net>]

Thomas Steffen wrote:

I am glad that you are verifying my approach. I was afraid that I
forgot a step that I did, and that seems to be true. Anyway, once it
*really* works, I may put it into the FAQ.
  

Ahhh, don't worry about it... you already solved it again... read on... ;-)

On 5/22/05, Jörg Ebeling <joerg.ebeling@shbe.net> wrote:
  

With your cool description I get the reader now loaded/started, but get
a small "Adobe Reader" MessageBox with a warning:
   "There was an error while loading the plug-in 'PPKLite.api'. The
plug-in failed to initialize."
    

Yep, I get that, too. I don't even know what that module is for, so I
am not worried :-) Deleting the module should "fix" the warning.
  

Ahh, deleting works :-D ... such easy :-[ .

"(acroread:7941): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Error loading XPM image loader:
Bildlader-Modul konnte nicht geladen werden:
/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-xpm.so:
/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-xpm.so: cannot open
shared object file: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden"
    

Ok, so pixbuf is a real problem. The issue is that it is using the
config file in /etc/gtk-2.0/???, which points to the mentioned
libpixbufloader-xpm.so. Since this is an amd64 shared library, it
cannot be loaded into the ia32 binary. Which gives me an idea: if you
add the ia32 libpixbufloader (probably in /usr/lib32) *in addition* to
this one, it should work for both kinds of binaries.
  

I already have them in the libs32 too...
However, haven't known that there's a config file... Simply changed it there so that it points to the lib32 one.

And YEAHHHH... it works !!!

I guess something other don't work now due to the config change... but "shit happen" ;-) .

Looot thanks !!!

Beside that, is there a chance to get the pdf mozilla plugin working or
is that impossible at all (as long as there's no real AMD64 port) ?
    

If the plugin spawns a separate process, probably yes. But my
experience with plugins is extremely mixed. As a plugin I prefer kpdf
3.4 in konqueror anyway.
  

Huam...

Okay, let me go some OT:

I know the other readers like xpdf, kpdf and the like, but beside that they all have problems with some special images (i.e. JPEG transparency) or that they're sometimes ugly in the handling, I've one BIIIIIG problem with them... may be it's because of nescience of mine:

    "The all have NO reload possibility !"

Imagine, you're developing in/a PDF and need to check the result very often.
When using "Adobe Acrobat" as a Browser-Plugin, you've the possibility to press the "reload" button of the browser = one click.

With kpdf or the like you need to close and re-open the file.

I'm working the whole day with my AMD64 environment.
Everything works fine.
But when I need to develope in PDF I really restart my system back into IA32 only because of the "Mouseclick" case.
I know, it's stupid.

May be someone knows another way how to reload PDFs with one click.




Cya
  Jörg