Re: [Hampshire] Accessing genealogy data on PDF files

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Author: Paul Freeman
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Accessing genealogy data on PDF files
On 2013-05-13 12:11, john lewis wrote:

> The problem is that acroread is a 32 bit application and Debian Sid
> seems to be having problems with 32 bit libs at the moment with the
> result that I cannot re-install acroread from the Debian multimedia
> site. Nor can I install the deb which can be downloaded from Adobe.
>


Yes sadly they (Adobe) don't seem to distribute a 64bit native linux
binary currently.

>
> I'm not sure how to get around this problem.
>


do you have Google Chrome (not Chromium) installed... its embedded PDF
viewer is actually by Adobe anyway. try Ctrl+o and open one of the PDF's
and see if it works. if it does then just open multiple tabs :)

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