Acroread: Why it won't open documents

[Joel Hammer]

It turns out that there is a third bug in the vendor supplied startup
script. It is in the third line. 
If you make a link on your desktop to this command, and click on the link,
you always get an error since $* is null.

So, changing the script again:

#!/bin/bash
# cd ~/MyDocuments
[ -z "$*" ] && /usr/Acrobat5/bin/acroread || /usr/Acrobat5/bin/acroread "$*"

Joel


On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:57:37AM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote:
> Just in case you have this problem.
> 
> I downloaded acrobat reader from the lindows warehouse (Debian system). It
> wouldn't open valid pdf documents or items linked on the internet.
> 
> As usual, knowing bash helps.
> 
> which acroread shows that the acroread command is really a script:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> cd ~/MyDocuments
> /usr/Acrobat5/bin/acroread $*
> 
> 
> The person who wrote this script must never have tried to use it. Two
> errors in this script prevent acroread from working. First, it always
> looks for the documents in MyDocuments. Secondly, it can't handle blanks
> in file names.
> 
> This script works:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> # cd ~/MyDocuments
> /usr/Acrobat5/bin/acroread "$*"
> 
> Geez.
> 
> Joel
> 
> 
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