Do foxit pdf or nitro pdf do anything for Linux? Maybe try a different
company like that.
Hope this helps
On 13 May 2013 16:43, "john lewis" <zen57162@???> wrote:
> 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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