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- Acrobat Reader 3.0 CD-ROM Updated: 16 June, 1997
- Read Me Notes
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- Table of Contents
- This read me file contains information about:
-
- Acrobat Reader Installers and Instructions
- Distributing the Acrobat Reader Installers
- Acrobat Reader Installers for Unix
- Re-use of Acrobat Reader 3.0 Documentation
- Customizing the Acrobat Reader Installers
- "Includes Adobe Acrobat" Logo
-
- Acrobat Reader Installers and Instructions
- ==========================================
- This hybrid CD-ROM contains Acrobat Reader 3.0 installers (with and without
- Acrobat Search) for Macintosh, Windows, and Unix. Here are the installation
- instructions for each platform:
-
- Windows
- -------
- Run the SETUP.EXE program in the 16BIT (for Windows 3.x systems) or 32BIT
- (for Windows 95 and NT systems) folder for the desired configuration:
-
- ACROREAD / WIN
- |___ READER Acrobat Reader
- | |___ 16BIT Windows 3.x
- | |___ 32BIT Windows 95 and NT
- | |___ QUICKTIM QuickTime 2.12 Installers
- |
- |___ RDR_SRCH Acrobat Reader + Search
- | |___ 16BIT Windows 3.x
- | |___ 32BIT Windows 95 and NT
- | |___ QUICKTIM QuickTime 2.12 Installers
- |
- |___ DISKS Acrobat Reader (Disk-based Installer)
- |___ 16BIT Windows 3.x
- |___ 32BIT Windows 95 and NT
-
- For example, the Acrobat Reader + Search installer for Windows 95 is:
- ACROREAD / WIN / RDR_SRCH / 32BIT / SETUP.EXE
-
- QuickTime installation is only required if you are viewing PDF files with linked
- QuickTime movies or sounds. See the README.WRI file in the QUICKTIM folder for
- installation details.
-
- The DISKS folder contains the Acrobat Reader 3.0 installer files that may be
- copied to empty, DOS-formatted HD floppy disks.
-
- Macintosh
- ---------
- Run the "Install Acrobat Reader 3.0" program in the "Reader" folder of the
- desired configuration:
-
- ACROREAD / MAC
- |___ Reader Acrobat Reader
- | |___ Reader Reader Installer
- | |___ OLE OLE Plug-in Installer
- | |___ QuickTime QuickTime 2.5 Installer
- |
- |___ Reader+Search Acrobat Reader + Search
- | |___ Reader Reader + Search Installer
- | |___ OLE OLE Plug-in Installer
- | |___ QuickTime QuickTime 2.5 Installer
- |
- |___ Disks Acrobat Reader (Disk-based Installer)
- |___ Reader Reader Installer
- |___ OLE OLE Plug-in Installer
- |___ QuickTime QuickTime 2.5 Installer
-
- For example, the Acrobat Reader + Search installer for Macintosh is:
- ACROREAD / MAC / Reader+Search / Reader / Install Acrobat Reader 3.0
-
- QuickTime installation is only required if you are viewing PDF files with linked
- QuickTime movies or sounds. Most likely, your Macintosh system already has
- QuickTime 2.0 or later installed, which is required to play back QuickTime
- movies and sounds added to Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
-
- Installation of the OLE plug-in is only required if you need to view PDF
- documents embedded as OLE objects in another application, such as Lotus Notes.
-
- Unix
- ----
- For installation instructions, see the INSTGUID.TXT file in the directory for
- the desired configuration (all configurations are in the same directory):
-
- ACROREAD / UNIX
- |___ READER Acrobat Reader
- |
- |___ RDR_SRCH Acrobat Reader + Search
-
- For example, the Acrobat Reader + Search install script for Unix is:
- ACROREAD / UNIX / RDR_SRCH / INSTALL. For more information, see the "Acrobat
- Reader Installers for Unix" section below.
-
- OS/2
- ---
- Run the "ARO2E3O.EXE" program in the "Reader" folder.
-
- ACROREAD / OS2
- |___ READER Acrobat Reader
-
- Distributing the Acrobat Reader Installers
- ===================================
- You may make and distribute unlimited copies of the Acrobat Reader or Acrobat
- Reader + Search software on this CD-ROM, including copies for commercial
- distribution, as long as each copy that you make and distribute includes the
- following:
-
- 1. Acrobat Reader or Acrobat Reader + Search installer, as provided by Adobe;
-
- 2. Acrobat Reader Electronic End User License Agreement;
-
- 3. Copyright and other proprietary notices included in Acrobat Reader; and
-
- 4. The following attribution statement on any media and packaging that
- includes Acrobat Reader: "Acrobat(R) Reader copyright (C) 1987-1997
- Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. Adobe and Acrobat are
- trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated."
-
- You are expressly prohibited from modifying the Acrobat Reader installer program
- provided by Adobe or creating your own installer for the Acrobat Reader
- software. You may, however, customize the Acrobat Reader installer as described
- in "Customizing the Acrobat Reader Installers" below. If you distribute the
- Acrobat Reader installers as provided on this CD-ROM or customize them as
- described below, you will be in compliance with item 1 above.
-
- The Acrobat Reader Electronic End User License Agreement, copyright notices, and
- proprietary notices are contained in the Acrobat Reader installer program. If
- you distribute one of the Acrobat Reader installers provided on this CD-ROM you
- will be in compliance with items 2 and 3 above. Details on the terms of use for
- the Acrobat Reader products are found in the Acrobat Reader Electronic End User
- License Agreement presented during installation.
-
- You may not distribute the Search or QuickTime installer components separately;
- they must be distributed along with an Acrobat Reader installer. Adobe Systems
- Incorporated has licensed QuickTime for Macintosh and Windows to incorporate
- in Adobe products, including Acrobat Reader. You may make copies of QuickTime
- only as incorporated for use with Acrobat Reader. Any distribution of QuickTime
- apart from the Acrobat Reader is subject to the restrictions specified by Apple
- Computer, Inc.
-
- There is not a Reader + Search installer that will fit on HD floppy disks.
-
- Acrobat Reader Installers for Unix
- ==================================
- ACROREAD/UNIX/READER - This directory contains files for installing Acrobat
- Reader onto the following platforms: SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, IRIX, Digital
- UNIX, or LINUX. A single installation script senses what platform's components
- are present and lists those platforms as choices. The required files are the
- following:
-
- INSTGUID.TXT The Reader installation guide
- INSTALL The installation script
- LICREAD.TXT The End-User License Agreement which is required by the
- installation script
- READ.TAR The platform-independent files (on-line documentation,
- fonts, etc.).This file is required by the installation
- script.
-
- The following files contain the platform-dependent components. If you do not
- want to distribute the Reader installation for a particular platform, such as
- Solaris, then do not inlcude that platform's file in the same directory as
- the other components of the installer.
-
- AIXR.TAR The AIX platform-specific files
- AOSFR.TAR The Digital UNIX platform-specific files
- HPUXR.TAR The HP-UX platform-specific files
- ILINXR.TAR The LINUX platform-specific files
- IRIXR.TAR The IRIX platform-specific files
- SSOLR.TAR The Solaris platform-specific files
- SSUNR.TAR The SunOS platform-specific files
-
- For example, to include the Reader installer for only AIX, the following files
- are needed in the same directory:
-
- INSTGUID.TXT
- INSTALL
- LICREAD.TXT
- READ.TAR
- AIXR.TAR
-
- ACROREAD/UNIX/RDR_SRCH - This directory contains the above listed files plus
- files specific for Acrobat Search. The additional files are:
-
- SEARCH.TAR The platform-independent files for Acrobat Search
- AIXS.TAR The AIX platform-specific Search files
- AOSFS.TAR The Digital UNIX platform-specific files
- HPUXS.TAR The HP-UX platform-specific Search files
- IRIXS.TAR The IRIX platform-specific Search files
- SSOLS.TAR The Solaris platform-specific Search files
- SSUNS.TAR The SunOS platform-specific Search files
-
- For example, to include the Acrobat Reader + Search installer for HP-UX, the
- following files need to be in the same directory:
-
- INSTGUID.TXT
- INSTALL
- LICREAD.TXT
- READ.TAR
- SEARCH.TAR
- HPUXR.TAR
- HPUXS.TAR
-
-
- Re-use of Acrobat Reader 3.0 Documentation
- ======================================
- You may copy and re-use text and illustrations from any or all of the Acrobat
- Reader documentation (including Online Guides and ReadMe files) in your own
- publications associated with the distribution of Acrobat Reader 3.0 software.
- If you do so, you must include the following attribution line: "Some portions
- copyrighted to and reprinted with permission from Adobe Systems Incorporated."
-
-
- Customizing the Acrobat Reader Installers
- =========================================
- You may customize the Acrobat Reader installers to install additional files
- such as plug-ins and help files. You cannot change the components that are
- built into the Acrobat Reader installer and its archives.
-
- Windows -- The Acrobat Reader installers for Windows have the ability to copy
- files that are external to the installer application and archives. To trigger
- the blind-copy mechanism, a file named ABCPY.INI (Adobe Blind CoPY
- initialization file) must exist in the same folder as the installer program
- (SETUP.EXE) for Acrobat Reader. The ABCPY.INI file specifies the source and
- destination locations for each file that is copied. Details for modifying this
- file can be found in ABCPYDOC.INI which is in the same folder as the installer
- (SETUP.EXE) for Acrobat Reader. An actual example of using ABCPY.INI can be
- found in the Acrobat Reader + Search installer on this CD-ROM.
-
- ABCPY.INI can also be used to specify some of the behavior of the Acrobat Reader
- installer such as which dialogs are displayed, the default destination directory,
- and the default "program group" and to enable the installer to launch another
- InstallShield script or another Windows application. It cannot be used to prevent
- the display of the Acrobat Reader Electronic End User License Agreement.
-
- Macintosh -- The Acrobat Reader installers for Macintosh have the ability to
- copy files that are external to the installer application and archives. This
- is done by placing them in specially named folders, within the same folder as
- the installer application. In this way, files can be automatically copied to
- the Adobe Acrobat 3.0 folder on the destination hard drive.
-
- Standard folder names are:
-
- Plug-Ins
- Optional Plug-Ins
- Help
-
- 1. Create a folder named (one of the choices above, exactly) at the same level
- as the installer application in the "Reader" folder.
-
- 2. Put the appropriate files or folders (yes, it's recursive) into the folder
- you've created. Please put only the same type of files as the folder name. For
- example, plug-ins in the Plug-Ins folder, PDF files in the Help folder, etc.
-
- Note: The Installer checks to see if there is enough room on the target disk
- before installing the files in these external folders, but the copy will fail
- silently if there isn't enough room on the target disk. Also, the amount of
- space taken up by the additional files is --not-- included in the required
- space number in the Easy Install portion of the Installer.
-
- Unix -- You can add your own plug-ins or documents to be installed by the
- Acrobat Reader for Unix installer. To do so requires you to add one or more .tar
- files to the directory containing the installer components containing the
- additional elements you would like to install.
-
- Situation #1
- ============
- You have additional PDF files you would like installed into Reader/Help. Follow
- these steps:
-
- 1. Create a directory structure of Reader/Help and place your additional files
- in the Help directory. Do NOT use your Reader installation area because any
- files in the Help directory when you make your .tar file will overwrite files
- of the same name that already exist in the installed image on the user's
- machine.
-
- For example, you've got a file, foo.pdf, you'd like to install into the Help
- directory. On your machine, set up a directory of Reader/Help/foo.pdf.
-
- mkdir Reader/Help
- cp -p foo.pdf Reader/Help
-
- 2. Change to the Reader directory.
-
- cd Reader
-
- 3. Create a .tar file of that directory and name it CUSTOM.TAR.
-
- The name CUSTOM.TAR should be used for any files to be installed that are
- platform-independent, such as help files. It is very important the files in
- the CUSTOM.TAR file are platform-independent.
-
- 4. Place the CUSTOM.TAR file in the same directory with the other files of the
- installer.
-
- Situation #2
- ============
- You want to install plug-ins for a specific platform.
-
- 1. Create a directory for that particular platform and place the correct
- plug-in in the directory.
-
- mkdir Reader/<platformdirectory>/plug_ins
- cp -p fooplug.api Reader/<platformdirectory>/plug_ins
-
- The <platformdirectory> must be one of the following:
-
- hppahpux For HP-UX
- mipsirix For IRIX
- rs6000aix For AIX
- sparcsolaris For Solaris
- sparcsun For SunOS
- alphaosf For Digital UNIX
- intellinux For LINUX
-
- 2. Change to the Reader directory.
-
- cd Reader
-
- 3. Create a .tar file of that directory and name it one of the following
- (appropriate for the platform):
-
- HPUXC.TAR For HP-UX
- IRIXC.TAR For IRIX
- AIXC.TAR For AIX
- SSOLC.TAR For Solaris
- SSUNC.TAR For SunOS
- AOSFC.TAR For Digital UNIX
- ILINXC.TAR For Linux
-
- 4. Place the .tar file in the same directory as the other files of the
- installer.
-
-
- "Includes Adobe Acrobat" Logo
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- A special "Includes Adobe Acrobat" logo is available from Adobe for use when
- distributing Acrobat Reader. See http://www.adobe.com/acrobat/acrodist.html for
- more details.
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- Adobe, Acrobat, Acrobat Capture, Acrobat Exchange, Adobe Type Manager, and
- Distiller are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Macintosh and Power
- Macintosh are registered trademarks and True Type is a trademark of Apple
- Computer, Inc. Digital is a trademark of Digital Equipment Corporation.
- Windows is a registered trademark and Windows NT is a trademark
- of Microsoft in the U.S. and other countries. Pentium is a registered
- trademark of Intel Corporation. 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.
-
- (c) 1996-1997 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved.
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