Re: acroread broken? (potato)

[Ashley Clark <aclark@ghoti.org>]

On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Alan Eugene Davis wrote:
> Having just received a very amazing CD, enjoying it on a Mac and a
> Windoze machine, I thought acroread would probably work with it.  I
> get messages about compressed pdf from other pdf readers.  There is
> some problem with graphics rendering on the potato system, and when I
> try to follow links, I get either a segmentation fault or some other
> error.  
> 
> When I run ldd the following happens:
> 
> $ ldd /usr/lib/Acrobat4/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread
>         libreadcore.so => not found
>         libAGM.so => not found
>         libCoolType.so => not found
>         libICC.so => not found
>         libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 (0x4000c000)
>         libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXext.so.6 (0x4004f000)
>         libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6 (0x4005a000)
>         libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x400fa000)
>         libdl.so.1 => /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x40103000)
>         libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40106000)
>         libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libSM.so.6 (0x401c4000)
>         libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libICE.so.6 (0x401cd000)
> $ 

I can't speak for the problems you're having with the PDF file but
the libraries that are missing above are simply in a non-standard
place. The script in /usr/X11R6/bin/acroread determines where they
are/should be and sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH accordingly if you ran
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/acroread/libs ldd /....linux/bin/acroread
you would indeed see something like this:

        libreadcore.so => /usr/lib/Acrobat4/Reader/intellinux/lib/libreadcore.so (0x4000e000)
        libAGM.so => /usr/lib/Acrobat4/Reader/intellinux/lib/libAGM.so (0x401c8000)
        libCoolType.so => /usr/lib/Acrobat4/Reader/intellinux/lib/libCoolType.so (0x402e8000)
        libICC.so => /usr/lib/Acrobat4/Reader/intellinux/lib/libICC.so (0x40519000)
        libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 (0x405c0000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXext.so.6 (0x40603000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6 (0x4060e000)
        libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x406ae000)
        libdl.so.1 => /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x406b7000)
        libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x406ba000)
        libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libSM.so.6 (0x40778000)
        libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libICE.so.6 (0x40781000)

> Can I reasonably get this thing to work right, or am I stuck until
> Adobe chooses to release a binary compatible with my libaries?  Or
> what?  

Have you tried xpdf, or ghostview or gv to see if the file works in
any of them? I've found that the portable pdf format isn't entirely
portable ;)

-- 
Ashley Clark