Acrobat or Acrobat Reader?

[Sergei Gerasenko]

Are you sure it's Acrobat and not Acrobat Reader that you're talking about? But even if there's a linux version of
Acrobat (which to tell you the truth I haven't heard about), I already paid through my nose for the Windows version. The
thing is, I don't want to restart my computer every time I need Acrobat. 

On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 03:30:56PM -0500, Jade E. Deane wrote:
> Are you aware that Adobe has a Linux version of Acrobat...?
> 
> On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 10:24, Sergei Gerasenko wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> > 
> > I just started using wine several days ago. Can't get Acrobat 5.05 to work. I downloaded the latest wine source
> > (20030508), compiled and installed it (using wineinstall) without any problem. First thing I did was copy minesweeper
> > from my windows partition and it worked like a million bucks. So, that's good. Then, I decided to install Acrobat 5.05.
> > The first problem I ran into and I think that should be mentioned in the FAQ someday, was that because I didn't have
> > Joliet compiled into the kernel, all file names were truncated at 8 characters and the installer couldn't find some of
> > them. Once I took care of Joliet, everything the installation went smoothly. 
> > 
> > Now, I've read the user's guide pretty carefully and ran winecheck, looked at my config, etc. The links to Wine
> > Troubleshooting Guide and The Perfect Enduser Wine Debugging guide on the wine home page are broken by the way. 
> > 
> > So, here is the problem. When I start Acrobat, the splash screen appears as usual, Acrobat displays various initialization
> > messages and when it gets to "Initializing search.api", it gets stuck. The process usage goes to 89%, the fan turns on
> > and no wine messages are displayed at that point either. 
> > 
> > Here's my setup. I set up wine to run independently of windows. My linux distro is Debian (stable). My gcc version is
> > 2.95.4. I'm including my config. I would greatly appreciate any ideas.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > P.S. Late last night I wasn't thinking right and sent two subscribtion requests to wine-users at winehq.com instead of the
> > wine-users-request at winehq.com. I apologize for that.
> > 
> > ------------------------------------------
> > 
> > WINE REGISTRY Version 2
> > ;; All keys relative to \\Machine\\Software\\Wine\\Wine\\Config
> > 
> > ;; If you think it is necessary to show others your complete config for a
> > ;; bug report, filter out empty lines and comments with
> > ;; grep -v "^;" ~/.wine/config | grep '.'
> > ;;
> > ;; MS-DOS drives configuration
> > ;;
> > ;; Each section has the following format:
> > ;; [Drive X]
> > ;; "Path"="xxx"       (Unix path for drive root)
> > ;; "Type"="xxx"       (supported types are 'floppy', 'hd', 'cdrom' and 'network')
> > ;; "Label"="xxx"      (drive label, at most 11 characters)
> > ;; "Serial"="xxx"     (serial number, 8 characters hexadecimal number)
> > ;; "Filesystem"="xxx" (supported types are 'msdos'/'dos'/'fat', 'win95'/'vfat', 'unix')
> > ;;   This is the FS Wine is supposed to emulate on a certain
> > ;;   directory structure.
> > ;;   Recommended:
> > ;;   - "win95" for ext2fs, VFAT and FAT32
> > ;;   - "msdos" for FAT16 (ugly, upgrading to VFAT driver strongly recommended)
> > ;;   DON'T use "unix" unless you intend to port programs using Winelib !
> > ;; "Device"="/dev/xx" (only if you want to allow raw device access)
> > ;;
> > [Drive A]
> > "Path" = "/mnt/fd0"
> > "Type" = "floppy"
> > "Label" = "Floppy"
> > "Filesystem" = "win95"
> > "Serial" = "87654321"
> > "Device" = "/dev/fd0"
> > 
> > [Drive C]
> > "Path" = "/home/user1/wine/c"
> > "Type" = "hd"
> > "Label" = "MS-DOS"
> > "Filesystem" = "win95"
> > 
> > [Drive D]
> > "Path" = "/cdrom"
> > "Type" = "cdrom"
> > "Label" = "CD-Rom"
> > "Filesystem" = "win95"
> > ; make sure that device is correct and has proper permissions !
> > "Device" = "/dev/cdrom"
> > 
> > [Drive E]
> > "Path" = "/tmp"
> > "Type" = "hd"
> > "Label" = "Tmp Drive"
> > "Filesystem" = "win95"
> > 
> > [wine]
> > "Windows" = "c:\\windows"
> > "System" = "c:\\windows\\system"
> > "Temp" = "e:\\"
> > "Path" = "c:\\windows;c:\\windows\\system;e:\\;e:\\test;f:\\;c:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Acrobat 5.0\\Acrobat"
> > "Profile" = "c:\\windows\\Profiles\\Administrator"
> > "GraphicsDriver" = "x11drv"
> > ;"ShowDirSymlinks" = "1"
> > ;"ShowDotFiles" = "1"
> > "ShellLinker" = "wineshelllink"
> > 
> > # [wineconf]
> > 
> > [Version]
> > ; Windows version to imitate (win95,win98,winme,nt351,nt40,win2k,winxp,win20,win30,win31)
> > ;"Windows" = "win98"
> > ; DOS version to imitate
> > ;"DOS" = "6.22"
> > 
> > ; Be careful here, wrong DllOverrides settings have the potential
> > ; to pretty much kill your setup.
> > 
> > [DllOverrides]
> > ; some dlls you may want to change
> > ;"winspool.drv" = "native, builtin"
> > "oleaut32" = "builtin, native"
> > "ole32" = "builtin, native"
> > "commdlg" = "builtin, native"
> > "comdlg32" = "builtin, native"
> > "shell" = "builtin, native"
> > "shell32" = "builtin, native"
> > "shfolder" = "builtin, native"
> > "shlwapi" = "builtin, native"
> > "shdocvw" = "builtin, native"
> > "advapi32" = "builtin, native"
> > "msvcrt" = "native, builtin"
> > "mciavi.drv" = "native, builtin"
> > "mcianim.drv" = "native, builtin"
> > ; you can specify applications too
> > ; this one will apply for all notepad.exe
> > ;"*notepad.exe" = "native, builtin"
> > ; this one will apply only for a particular file
> > ;"C:\\windows\\regedit.exe" = "native, builtin"
> > ; default for all other dlls
> > "*" = "builtin, native"
> > 
> > [x11drv]
> > ; Number of colors to allocate from the system palette
> > "AllocSystemColors" = "100"
> > ; Use a private color map
> > "PrivateColorMap" = "N"
> > ; Favor correctness over speed in some graphics operations
> > "PerfectGraphics" = "N"
> > ; Color depth to use on multi-depth screens
> > ;;"ScreenDepth" = "16"
> > ; Name of X11 display to use
> > ;;"Display" = ":0.0"
> > ; Allow the window manager to manage created windows
> > "Managed" = "Y"
> > ; Use a desktop window of 640x480 for Wine
> > ;"Desktop" = "640x480"
> > ; Use XFree86 DGA extension if present
> > ; (make sure /dev/mem is accessible by you !)
> > "UseDGA" = "Y"
> > ; Use XShm extension if present
> > "UseXShm" = "Y"
> > ; Use XVidMode extension if present
> > "UseXVidMode" = "Y"
> > ; Use the take focus protocol
> > "UseTakeFocus" = "Y"
> > ; Enable DirectX mouse grab
> > "DXGrab" = "N"
> > ; Create the desktop window with a double-buffered visual
> > ; (useful to play OpenGL games)
> > "DesktopDoubleBuffered" = "N"
> > ; Code page used for captions in managed mode
> > ; 0 means default ANSI code page (CP_ACP == 0)
> > "TextCP" = "0"
> > ; Use this if you have more than one port for video on your setup
> > ; (Wine uses for now the first 'input image' it finds).
> > ;; "XVideoPort" = "43"
> > ; Run in synchronous mode (useful for debugging X11 problems)
> > ;;"Synchronous" = "Y"
> > ;
> > ; Use the Render extension to render client side fonts (default "Y")
> > ;;"ClientSideWithRender" = "Y"
> > ; Fallback on X core requests to render client side fonts (default "Y")
> > ;;"ClientSideWithCore" = "Y"
> > ; Set both of the previous two to "N" in order to force X11 server side fonts
> > ;
> > ; Anti-alias fonts if using the Render extension (default "Y")
> > ;;"ClientSideAntiAliasWithRender" = "Y"
> > ; Anti-alias fonts if using core requests fallback (default "Y")
> > ;;"ClientSideAntiAliasWithCore" = "Y"
> > ;
> > 
> > "Desktop" = "N"
> > 
> > [fonts]
> > ;Read the Fonts topic in the Wine User Guide before adding aliases
> > ;See a couple of examples for russian users below
> > "Resolution" = "96"
> > "Default" = "-adobe-helvetica-"
> > "DefaultFixed" = "fixed"
> > "DefaultSerif" = "-adobe-times-"
> > "DefaultSansSerif" = "-adobe-helvetica-"
> > 
> > ;; default TrueType fonts with russian koi8-r encoding
> > ;"Default" = "-monotype-arial-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-koi8-r"
> > ;"DefaultFixed" = "-monotype-courier new-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-koi8-r"
> > ;"DefaultSerif" = "-monotype-times new roman-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-koi8-r"
> > ;"DefaultSansSerif" = "-monotype-arial-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-koi8-r"
> > ;; default cyrillic bitmap X fonts
> > ;"Default" = "-cronyx-helvetica-"
> > ;"DefaultFixed" = "fixed"
> > ;"DefaultSerif" = "-cronyx-times-"
> > ;"DefaultSansSerif" = "-cronyx-helvetica-"
> > 
> > ; the TrueType font dirs you want to make accessible to wine
> > 
> > [FontDirs]
> > ;"dir1" = "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
> > ;"dir2" = "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
> > ;"dir3" = "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TT"
> > ;"dir4" = "/usr/share/fonts/TT"
> > 
> > [serialports]
> > "Com1" = "/dev/ttyS0"
> > "Com2" = "/dev/ttyS1"
> > "Com3" = "/dev/ttyS2"
> > "Com4" = "/dev/modem"
> > 
> > [parallelports]
> > "Lpt1" = "/dev/lp0"
> > 
> > [ppdev]
> > ;; key:  io-base of the emulated port
> > ;; value : parport-device{,timeout}
> > ;; timeout for auto closing an open device ( not yet implemented)
> > ;"378" = "/dev/parport0"
> > ;"278" = "/dev/parport1"
> > ;"3bc" = "/dev/parport2"
> > 
> > [spooler]
> > "LPT1:" = "|lpr"
> > "LPT2:" = "|gs -sDEVICE=bj200 -sOutputFile=/tmp/fred -q -"
> > "LPT3:" = "/dev/lp3"
> > 
> > [ports]
> > ;"read"  = "0x779,0x379,0x280-0x2a0"
> > ;"write" = "0x779,0x379,0x280-0x2a0"
> > 
> > [Debug]
> > ;"RelayExclude" = "RtlEnterCriticalSection;RtlLeaveCriticalSection"
> > ;"RelayInclude" = "user32.CreateWindowA"
> > ;"RelayFromExclude" = "user32;x11drv"
> > ;"RelayFromInclude" = "sol.exe"
> > ;"SnoopExclude" = "RtlEnterCriticalSection;RtlLeaveCriticalSection"
> > ;"SpyExclude" = "WM_SIZE;WM_TIMER;"
> > 
> > [registry]
> > ;These are all booleans.  Y/y/T/t/1 are true, N/n/F/f/0 are false.
> > ;Defaults are read all, write to Home
> > ; Where to find the global registries
> > ;"GlobalRegistryDir" = "/etc";
> > ; Global registries (stored in /etc)
> > "LoadGlobalRegistryFiles" = "Y"
> > ; Home registries (stored in ~user/.wine/)
> > "LoadHomeRegistryFiles" = "Y"
> > ; Load Windows registries from the Windows directory
> > "LoadWindowsRegistryFiles" = "Y"
> > ; TRY to write all changes to home registries
> > "WritetoHomeRegistryFiles" = "Y"
> > ; Registry periodic save timeout in seconds
> > ; "PeriodicSave" = "600"
> > ; Save only modified keys
> > "SaveOnlyUpdatedKeys" = "Y"
> > 
> > [Tweak.Layout]
> > ;; supported styles are 'Win31'(default), 'Win95', 'Win98'
> > ;; this has *nothing* to do with the windows version Wine returns:
> > ;; set the "Windows" value in the [Version] section if you want that.
> > "WineLook" = "Win95"
> > 
> > [Clipboard]
> > "ClearAllSelections" = "0"
> > "PersistentSelection" = "1"
> > 
> > ; List of all directories directly contain .AFM files
> > 
> > [afmdirs]
> > "1" = "/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts"
> > "2" = "/usr/share/a2ps/afm"
> > "3" = "/usr/share/enscript"
> > "4" = "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
> > 
> > [WinMM]
> > ; Uncomment the "Drivers" line matching your sound setting.
> > 
> > ;"Drivers" = "winearts.drv"    ; for KDE
> > ;"Drivers" = "winealsa.drv"    ; for ALSA users
> > ;"Drivers" = "winejack.drv"    ; for Jack sound server
> > ;"Drivers" = "winenas.drv"     ; for NAS sound system
> > ;"Drivers" = "wineaudioio.drv" ; for Solaris machines
> > ;"Drivers" = ""                ; to disable sound
> > "WaveMapper" = "msacm.drv"
> > "MidiMapper" = "midimap.drv"
> > 
> > [dsound]
> > ;; HEL only: Number of waveOut fragments ahead to mix in new buffers.
> > ;"HELmargin" = "5"
> > ;; HEL only: Number of waveOut fragments ahead to queue to driver.
> > ;"HELqueue" = "5"
> > ;; Max number of fragments to prebuffer
> > ;"SndQueueMax" = "28"
> > ;; Min number of fragments to prebuffer
> > ;"SndQueueMin" = "12"
> > ;; Forces emulation mode (using wave api)
> > ;"HardwareAcceleration" = "Emulation"
> > ;; Sets default playback device (0 - number of devices - 1)
> > ;"DefaultPlayback" = "0"	; use first device (/dev/dsp)
> > ;"DefaultPlayback" = "1" 	; use second device (/dev/dsp1)
> > ;"DefaultPlayback" = "2" 	; use third device (/dev/dsp2)
> > ;; Sets default capture device (0 - number of devices - 1)
> > ;"DefaultCapture" = "0"		; use first device (/dev/dsp)
> > ;"DefaultCapture" = "1"		; use second device (/dev/dsp1)
> > ;"DefaultCapture" = "2"		; use third device (/dev/dsp2)
> > 
> > [Network]
> > ;; Use the DNS (Unix) host name always as NetBIOS "ComputerName" (boolean, default "Y").
> > ;; Set to N if you need a persistent NetBIOS ComputerName that possibly differs 
> > ;; from the Unix host name. You'll need to set ComputerName in 
> > ;; HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\ComputerName\ComputerName, too.
> > ;"UseDnsComputerName" = "N"
> > 
> > ;; sample AppDefaults entries
> > 
> > ; 3 InstallShield versions who like to put their full screen window in front,
> > ; without any chance to switch to another X11 application.
> > ; So just catch them in a desktop window.
> > 
> > [AppDefaults\\_INS5576._MP\\x11drv]
> > "Desktop" = "640x480"
> > 
> > [AppDefaults\\_INS5176._MP\\x11drv]
> > "Desktop" = "640x480"
> > 
> > [AppDefaults\\_INS0466._MP\\x11drv]
> > "Desktop" = "640x480"
> > 
> > ;[AppDefaults\\iexplore.exe\\DllOverrides]
> > ;"shlwapi" = "native"
> > ;"rpcrt4" = "native"
> > ;"ole32" = "native"
> > ;"shdocvw" = "native"
> > ;"wininet" = "native"
> > ;"shfolder" = "native"
> > ;"shell32" = "native"
> > ;"shell" = "native"
> > ;"comctl32" = "native"
> > ;
> > ;[AppDefaults\\setup.exe\\x11drv]
> > ;"Desktop" = "800x600"
> > ;
> > ;[AppDefaults\\sol.exe\\Version]
> > ;"Windows" = "nt40"
> > ;
> > ;; Some games (Quake 2, UT) refuse to accept emulated dsound devices.
> > ;; You can add an AppDefault entry like this for such cases.
> > ;[AppDefaults\\pickygame.exe\\dsound]
> > ;"EmulDriver" = "N"
> > 
> > # [/wineconf]
> > 
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