Acrobat Reader on Michael’s Domain

Acrobat Reader 5.07 for Linux

Sat, 26 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

There is an rpm for Acrobat Reader 5.07 for Linux from Gurulabs . It anyway didn’t work on my machine, so I had to stick to the old reader (version 4.05 that is). But today I found a fix on the web:OK, this is the error message:$ /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread$ Warning: charset "UTF-8" not supported, using "ISO8859-1".$ AbortedBut editing the acroread file (/usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread) really works. After the line:install_dir=/usr/local/Acrobat5/Readerjust insert these two lines:LANG=Cexport LANGBTW you need to have root accession rights to be able to modify the acroread file.

Removing PDF password protection

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I recently bought a pdf book. It was password-protected (40bit security). Unfortunately some of the PDF viewers on Linux cannot open password-protected pdf files. So I decided that I can remove the password protection for private use.A quick lock at the web showed two very easy methods of password removal:

Specifying a default working directory (Path) for Acrobat via acroread.desktop file

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Acrobat starts always with ~ as the working directory. Because I keep all my pdf files in a seperate directory, I have to do quite some navigation before I can save them. This is especially bad as the Acrobat save as window displays all files including hidden files.