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- Adobe(TM) Acrobat(TM) Reader UNIX(R) Read Me Notes for Version 2.1
-
-
- This Read Me file contains last-minute product information for Acrobat
- Reader 2.1. The "Installation and Getting Started Guide" information and the
- online guide (Help-Reader.pdf) will also provide essential information to help
- you begin using Acrobat Reader.
-
-
- What's New in Acrobat Reader 2.1
- ================================
-
- Acrobat 2.1 contains many new features and improvements over Acrobat 1.0. All
- features are described in the Help-Reader.pdf document. Changes of note
- include: we no longer require nor install Display PostScript (TM) or DPS-NX;
- the ability to follow cross-document links, including embedded URLs; and the
- ability to open secured files.
-
- Acrobat Reader now accepts some specially enabled plug-ins, which enable users
- to take advantage of new capabilities in PDF files created with Acrobat
- Exchange. Two new plug-ins are Weblink and AutoClose. Weblink enables you to
- follow links and bookmarks to other PDF and HTML documents on the World Wide
- Web. AutoClose closes the least-recently-used document when you reach the
- maximum number of open documents.
-
- Acrobat Reader prints to PostScript printers. We do not support printing to
- other printers, such as Sun's NeWSprint or PCL printers.
-
-
- Known Issues with Acrobat Reader
- ================================
-
- 1. SunOS 4.1.3 or 4.1.4 users running the X11/NeWS server:
-
- You must install patch number T100444 (with a minor number greater than 73)
- to your system before the application can be run. This patch fixes a problem
- in the X11/NeWS server that prevents all X Window System clients built with
- Motif 1.2.3 from hanging their server.
-
- Under certain circumstances on SunOS 4.1.3 or 4.1.4 systems running this
- patched X11/NeWS server, the session may still hang due to a different
- X11/NeWS server problem we recently discovered. The cause of this hang is
- not yet determined. Multiple clicks in the scroll bars to move the view
- pane seem to cause this problem. The problem is intermittent and cannot be
- reproduced with regularity.
-
- We are working with Sun to find the cause for this problem. For now we
- recommend that you run the application with an X11R5 server obtained from
- a third party or you may obtain the sources for the server from the X Window
- Consortium, Inc., and build your own.
-
- 2. HP-UX users:
-
- You might receive warning messages indicating missing fonts. There are
- several messages you could receive depending on your configuration.
-
- - You are displaying on an X server that has no HP-ROMAN8 font defined. The
- message you receive is:
-
- Warning: No fonts available with charset "HP-ROMAN8", using "ISO8859-1"
-
- In this situation, upper-ascii characters will display incorrectly. To fix
- this, change your language to an ISO8859 language
- (e.g., setenv LANG american.iso88591).
-
- - The variable fontList is specified and its encoding doesn't match the
- encoding of the application. If you specified an ISO font list, you
- will receive an error that says the encoding for fontList doesn't match
- the locales encoding. You need to change your LANG variable as listed above.
-
- - The Helvetica used by the Motif toolkit is not available on the system in
- the hp-roman8 encoding. The message you might receive is:
-
- Warning: Cannot convert string
- "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-hp-roman8" to type FontStruct
-
- This occurs when you are running on HP but displaying on a non-HP system. To
- fix this, set an application resource for fontList to specify a font that
- exists on the system.
-
- 3. 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.
-
- 4. 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.
-
- 5. 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 if you wish to save preferences.
-
- 6. When exiting Full Screen mode, bookmark and thumbnail views are not
- displayed. To display them, press the appropriate button in the Tool Bar.
-
- 7. Window managers other than those listed in the "Installation and Getting
- Started Guide" are not supported.
-
- 8. Users cannot convert secure PDF documents to PostScript from the command
- line even though they are able to print the files from Acrobat Reader.
-
- 9. 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.
-
- 10. 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.
-
- 11. 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.
-
- 12. If another window or icon obscures the document view, scrolling the window
- modally using the hand tool or scrollbar thumb to scroll the view may leave
- newly exposed areas that were underneath the obscuring window unupdated.
- This occurs only if the window manager's auto raise feature is turned off,
- the page is not in the page cache, and the user scrolls the document image
- modally. The document information may be refreshed by changing the view to
- some other page then back again, causing the viewer to recieve an expose
- event by obscuring it with another window, or running the "xrefresh" program.
- You can also work around this problem if you enable the window manager's
- auto raise feature.
-
- Known Issues with Weblink
- =========================
-
- Acrobat's Weblink plug-in supports Netscape version 1.1 or later and Mosaic
- version 2.5 or later. The preferences for Weblink are stored in $HOME/.weblink.
-
- - Issues working with Netscape:
-
- 1. When launching Netscape from Acrobat Reader, you get a locale warning
- message on your command line:
-
- netscape-v11N: locale: `iso_8859_1' not supported by Xlib; using `C'
-
- this is nothing to be alarmed about.
-
- -Issues working with Mosaic:
-
- 1. Whenever you pass a Universal Resource Locator (URL) to Mosaic, you get the
- following messages on your command line:
-
- MoCCINewConnection(); I've been called
- Mosaic: got a CCI connection
-
- this is nothing to be alarmed about.
-
- 2. Due to a problem with Mosaic, its window does not pop to the front when you
- click an embedded URL in a PDF file.
-
- 3. Mosaic has trouble following subsequent URLs whose base is the same as the
- previous URL. For example, your first embedded URL is the following:
-
- http://www.adobe.com/Product.html
-
- The next embedded URL you click on inside a PDF file is:
-
- http://www.adobe.com
-
- In this scenario, Mosaic will reload the first URL instead of the second (and
- correct) URL.
-
-
- Miscellaneaous Information
- ==========================
-
- 1. You may choose to print to any PostScript printer with the following command
- lines:
-
- acroread -toPostScript -pairs myfile.pdf /tmp/$$.ps
- lp -dprinter_name /tmp/$$.ps
- rm -f /tmp/$$.ps
-
- To generate level 2 PostScript, add the -level2 argument to the command
- line:
-
- acroread -toPostScript -level2 myfile.pdf
-
- 2. At the command line, type 'acroread -help' or 'acroread -helpall' for more
- information on command line options. Note that when using these command lines
- you must supply a DISPLAY variable if one is not already defined in your
- environment.
-
- 3. Set the following Window manager resources to make Acrobat behave similar
- to the Windows or Macintosh versions.
-
- AutoInputFocus: false If true, the main window will lose focus when
- the status windows appear and the keyboard
- accelerators will break.
-
- SetInput: select Must click to type in the dialog box.
-
- AutoRaise: true Brings the window to the front when it gets
- the focus.
-
- For MWM, these additional resources should be set to maintain behavior closer
- to Mac and Windows.
-
- autoKeyFocus: True When the window is withdrawn, it gives focus to
- the window that previously had focus.
-
- deiconifyKeyFocus: True Gives the window the focus when deiconified.
-
- startupKeyFocus: True Gives the window the focus when it's created.
-
- keyboardFocusPolicy: explicit Must click to type in the dialog box.
-
- focusAutoRaise: True Bring the window to front when it gets focus.
-
- 4. Using either BSD- or System5-style printing is controlled by resources set
- in the .Xdefaults file.
-
- The default from Acrobat is System5-style and the associated resource values
- are as follows:
-
- *acroread.lprCommand: /usr/bin/lp
- *acroread.lprStyle: SYSV
-
- To set the resources for BSD-style printing, set the resources as follows:
-
- *acroread.lprCommand: /usr/ucb/lpr
- *acroread.lprStyle: BSD
-
- 5. The HP Motif library uses different virtual key bindings than Sun's. As a
- result, when running on a Sun and displaying on an HP, the keys for
- DeleteLine, DeleteChar, InsertLine, and InsertChar may not be properly
- defined by default. You can tell if you get warnings of the form
- 'Warning: cannot convert string "<Key>DeleteChar" to type VirtualBinding'.
- One consequence of this is that the Esc key on some HP keyboards will not
- work to exit Full Screen mode.
-
- To fix this, load a file with the appropriate key bindings using the
- "xmbind" command. See the man page for xmbind for where it looks for the
- file. Check the bindings using "xprop -root | grep BIND".
-
- The resulting string should include hpDeleteLine, hpDeleteChar, hpInsertLine,
- and hpInsertChar.
-
- 6. Sometimes the quality of color images on 8-bit pseudocolor displays will
- suffer because Acrobat can't grab enough colors in the default color table.
-
- A color cube is a "block" of colors, n by m by p, that Acrobat reserves for
- rendering colors. Acrobat looks for the nearest color it can find to the one
- it wants in this cube. The larger the cube, the finer the color resolution.
-
- Color allocation is controlled by four resources:
- *minColorCube -- the minimum color cube size; default 3 (which reserves
- 3-cubed colors plus 3x2 grays, or 33 slots in the color table)
-
- *targetColorCube -- the size of color cube that Acrobat initially tries to
- allocate; default 5, yielding 5-cubed colors plus 5x2 grays for 135 color
- table slots (the largest allowed value is 6, since on an 8-bit color display
- there are only 256 colors and 7-cubed is greater than 256).
-
- If Acrobat can't find the 135 slots that *targetColorCube calls for, it
- shrinks the color cube by 1 in each dimension successively (5x5x4, then
- 5x4x4, then 4x4x4, and so on) until it comes up with a number of colors that
- will fit. If it reaches the *minColorCube size and still can't fit a color
- cube in the color table, it uses the next resource:
-
- *noPrivateColormap: if this is True, failure to fit in the standard color
- map will cause the image to drop into GrayScale (if the visual is not
- GrayScale by default, an alert will appear). If it is False, Acrobat will
- allocate a private color map and allocate its colors there.
-
- *usePrivateColormap: if this is True, Acrobat won't even try to fit its
- colors into the default color map; it will always allocate its own.
-
- 7. The following are other resource settings that may be helpful. You can place
- these in your .XDefaults file.
-
- *systemPlugInPath -- the location of plug-ins available to all users of the
- installed executable; default is $ACRO_INSTALL_DIR/$ACRO_CONFIG/plug_ins.
-
- *userPlugInPath -- the location of the user's private plug-ins; default
- $HOME/plug_ins.
-
- *useFrontEndProgram -- controls running a single process of Acrobat (default)
- or multiple processes; default is True.
-
- *noteTitleFontName -- controls the default font used in the titles of Acrobat
- notes; default is Helvetica.
-
- *noteTitleFontSize -- controls the font size used to display the titles of
- Acrobat notes; default is 12.
-
- *bookmarkFontName -- controls the default font used to display bookmarks;
- default is Helvetica.
-
- *bookmarkFontSize -- controls the font size used to display bookmarks;
- default is 12.
-
- *maxOpenDocuments -- controls the maximum number of documents open at any
- given time; default is 20. Do not set this value below 2.
-
- 8. Everytime you print from Acrobat Reader, a dialog will appear with the job
- ID. You can use the ID to kill the job, if you like. You must dismiss the
- dialog by clicking OK.
-
- 9. On a Tektronics X-Terminal:
-
- If displaying a document in Full Screen mode using a black background, a
- small white line will appear along the bottom and right edges of the
- background. This is due to a problem in the olwm running locally on the
- X-Terminal and is not an Acrobat bug.
-
- 10. Characters in PDF files that are not part of the ISO8859 encodings will not
- display when the text is selected and pasted elsewhere. This is most notable
- with the Registered and Trademark symbols.
-
- Adobe, the Adobe logo, Acrobat, the Acrobat logo, and PostScript are trademarks
- of Adobe Systems Incorporated or its subsidiaries and may be registered in
- certain jurisdictions. HP is a registered trademark and HP-UX is a trademark of
- Hewlett-Packard Company. Motif is a trademark of Open Software Foundation, Inc.
- Solaris is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc., which has not
- tested or approved this product. Sun and OpenWindows are trademarks of Sun
- Microsystems, Inc. SPARC is a registered trademark of SPARC International, Inc.
- SPARCstation is a registered trademark of SPARC International, Inc., licensed
- exclusively to Sun Microsystems, Inc. and is based upon an architecture
- developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark in the
- United States and other countries, licensed exclusively through X/Open Company,
- Ltd. X Window System is a trademark of the Massachusetts Institute of
- Technology. All other products or name brands are trademarks of their
- respective holders.
-
- copyright 1983 - 1995 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved.
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