From: Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: dumb question about aAdobe Acrobat....
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 16:47:24 -0400
On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 05:45:24PM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote:
>
> I tried installing Adobe Acrobat from a tarball and it doesn't seem to
> work. It was a while ago now so I have forgotten exactly what I did and
> didn't do.
>
> It seems a bit complex because it tries to put it in Iceweasel as plugin
or
> something and also as a stand alone program at the same time or
> something.......
>
> I don't remember it being as complex as this in the past.
>
> At a very dumb level is there an acrobat deb file somewhere that would
be
> easy to install somewhere in the non free repository....?
>
Hi Michael,
I see you've had quite a discussion already.
What is it about brand-name Acroread that you need? I've never used it;
I use xpdf. If I have any KDE apps installed, I'll use Kpdf. I don't
like gnome apps so don't use evince.
Well it's rather an unusual thing. I want to file accounts for a UK Limited
company I run. If you have access codes and passwords etc, then you can go
on Companies House web site (http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk) and then you
can submit the accounts on line. They give you a template file to download
that is a pdf file.
It's a bit like the UK equivalent to the Department of Corporations in
California.
You then edit it and put in your accounting information. As far as I can
see you are meant to do this with Adobe Acrobat...........
Then I guess you upload it and submit it.
On Monday, I am going to see an accountant to work on the accounts. We may
end up producing them on paper and posting them to Companies House via snail
mail and not bothering with the web filing.....
But I may try it. If I do it there then I will be doing it in a Windows
type environment where Acrobat will be floating around.... I will then see
more clearly what you are meant to do in this electronic filing and then
figure out the best way to Debianise any trace of non-free OSes or software
out of the process...
I am cringing a little bit about putting my draft pdf template file
downloaded from the web site on the mailing list here as a file attachment
that you could examine because it contains a little private info in it,,,,
But if it would help to see if other pdf software could modify it then I
would do it....
In California it costs $900 to register a limited company. In the UK you
can do it for $100 or less. The annual filing fee is £15 on line (I think).
Nicer still would be online filing of accounts (no charge for this) using
a free OS running free software to look at any pdf files and modify
them......
Comments appreciated.
Regards
Michael Fothergill
Yes amd64 has a couple of things that don't work because the
closed-source apps aren't compiled for amd64. I have a chroot for a
browser with adobe flash player.
The instructions in the amd64 howto/faq for setting up a chroot worked
reasonably well. I installed schroot so that now its simple to make a
button for icewm that will run the browser in its chroot.
Once you have an ia32 chroot, you can put anything you like into it.
Good luck,
Doug.
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