On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Alan Eugene Davis wrote:
> Having just received a very amazing CD, enjoying it on a Mac and a
> Windoze machine, I thought acroread would probably work with it. I
> get messages about compressed pdf from other pdf readers. There is
> some problem with graphics rendering on the potato system, and when I
> try to follow links, I get either a segmentation fault or some other
> error.
>
> When I run ldd the following happens:
>
> $ ldd /usr/lib/Acrobat4/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread
> libreadcore.so => not found
> libAGM.so => not found
> libCoolType.so => not found
> libICC.so => not found
> libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 (0x4000c000)
> libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXext.so.6 (0x4004f000)
> libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6 (0x4005a000)
> libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x400fa000)
> libdl.so.1 => /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x40103000)
> libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40106000)
> libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libSM.so.6 (0x401c4000)
> libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libICE.so.6 (0x401cd000)
> $
I can't speak for the problems you're having with the PDF file but
the libraries that are missing above are simply in a non-standard
place. The script in /usr/X11R6/bin/acroread determines where they
are/should be and sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH accordingly if you ran
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/acroread/libs ldd /....linux/bin/acroread
you would indeed see something like this:
libreadcore.so =>
/usr/lib/Acrobat4/Reader/intellinux/lib/libreadcore.so (0x4000e000)
libAGM.so => /usr/lib/Acrobat4/Reader/intellinux/lib/libAGM.so
(0x401c8000)
libCoolType.so =>
/usr/lib/Acrobat4/Reader/intellinux/lib/libCoolType.so (0x402e8000)
libICC.so => /usr/lib/Acrobat4/Reader/intellinux/lib/libICC.so
(0x40519000)
libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 (0x405c0000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXext.so.6 (0x40603000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6 (0x4060e000)
libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x406ae000)
libdl.so.1 => /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x406b7000)
libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x406ba000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libSM.so.6 (0x40778000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libICE.so.6 (0x40781000)
> Can I reasonably get this thing to work right, or am I stuck until
> Adobe chooses to release a binary compatible with my libaries? Or
> what?
Have you tried xpdf, or ghostview or gv to see if the file works in
any of them? I've found that the portable pdf format isn't entirely
portable ;)
--
Ashley Clark
