Startup Script for Acroread

[Joel Hammer]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 11:54:03AM -0500, Leon Goldstein wrote:

> Joel: I have a Libranet 2.8/2.8.1 KDE desktop icon with the following 
> execute:
> /usr/lib/Acrobat5/bin/acroread
> No script involved at all.
> This opens Acrobat, and I then pick off the desired PDF to open from its 
> menu.
> I have another desktop icon to open the WP8 manual with the following 
> execute:
> /usr/lib/Acrobat5/bin/acroread /usr/doc/corel/wp8/manual/wp8gui.pdf
> 
> Why not post your script? I suspect its purpose is to let you open a PDF 
> that you enter as an argument.

Opps. Turns out that I am actually calling acroread from
a script in mozilla.

Have you checked the contents of
/usr/lib/Acrobat5/bin/acroread?  Mind is a long script.

The binary hangs out as:
/usr/lib/Acrobat5/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread

If you try starting the binary directly, you get this
message:

acroread must be executed from the startup script.

So, there must be some obscure enviromental variable that
acrobat wants to see.

Well, it works.


Joel