On Mon, 13 May 2013 12:26:51 +0100
Paul Freeman <paul@???> wrote:
> 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 :)
I don't really want to get involved with anything from google (other
than the search engine since it is still better than anything else)
I did try adding the pdf plugin to iceweasel but nothing happens when I
try to 'open' a pdf file.
So since I have a mac-mini methinks I'll try acroread on that.
I already had an oldish version so got the latest (XI) from adobe but
neither the older version nor the latest allow for opening files in
tabs. Why! when the Linux version does. It really makes it so much
easier to look up data when it is in tabs.
It is quite frustrating trying to navigate around OS/X so I'll only
switch over to using acroread on the mac-mini if acroread on my Sid
system falls over completely.
I think I'll give up computing and convert to making a model railway
layout, it might give more satisfaction ;-)
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