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Title: Adobe Reader 6.0
Post by: pendragon on May 28, 2003, 11:46:20 AM

As some of you may have read at MFI (or personally experienced), many are having difficulty in getting the new Acrobat Reader 6.0 to run from other than the Finder or Terminal.

I too was having this problem despite several reinstalls, Repairing Permissions, and restarts. After exercising my vocabulary a bit, I stumbled upon a work around:

While Adobe Reader is still in the Finder, open any .pdf document. Now, without closing or quitting Adobe Reader, drag the entire Adobe Folder to Applications and then close the document and quit Adobe. From then on, Adobe Reader works as normal (or it so it seems).

I discussed this with my local Apple VAR and he thinks that what I did was to create the (proper) path required by Adobe. I think he is just being kind to a favored customer. None of this makes any sense to me.

Still, perhaps it will help others.

Harv

Title: Adobe Reader 6.0
Post by: Bruce_F on May 28, 2003, 12:25:37 PM

I'm one of the lucky ones... I guess. There may be a reason for the problem installer, related to "where" the installer puts the application.

In my case, the installer put the Reader application folder on the desktop. I thought that was a little weird since most applications, Adobe apps included, are installed into the Applications folder.

I dropped the Reader folder onto the Applications folder. Then I launched it for the first time. I had to okay the popup windows, making Reader the default application and then I looked for a file to open. Then I closed the file and proceded to add a Reader icon to the Dock.

Double clicking a PDF file works.

Title: Adobe Reader 6.0
Post by: daffy on May 28, 2003, 02:44:42 PM

My experience was identical to Bruce F's.

After dropping it into Applications, I immediately double-clicked on a pdf file in my Documents folder & it was ok. I then drug a pdf file onto the Reader icon & it also opened ok.

MacFixit today also mentions ...

"Save as PDF" function killed In an apparent attempt by Adobe to increase attention for the commercially available Acrobat 6.0, you can no longer save documents in Adobe Reader 6.0 as PDFs from the Print menu. Instead, you can only save a copy of the original document using the "Save a Copy As.." option in the File Menu."

I just checked that out & it does still work for me. I opened an old Word document, used the print dialog & selected "save as PDF."  It saved it as a good PDF.    ...so I'm not sure why they are saying that function is killed.

Title: Adobe Reader 6.0
Post by: pendragon on May 28, 2003, 04:51:31 PM

I just DL and installed Acrobat Reader 6.0 on a different volume, thinking all the while that I would go through a drill similar to the one I previously experienced. But this time, it was as advertised. No problemos at all. Even Bernie can do it.

It must be the karma from Bruce and Daffy. Couldn't possibly be operator error.  

Harv

Title: Adobe Reader 6.0
Post by: Bruce_F on May 29, 2003, 01:07:23 PM

After reading the following, quoted from MacFixIt, it may explain why my Reader installation was successful the first time around.
 

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We've since discovered a workaround. In the International preference pane of the system preference of Mac OS X, in the language tab, specify a language other than English (or your current default language) at the top, log out, log in using the language you selected. Then change the setting back to your default, log out and back in, and Reader should launch properly.

When I first got my G4 with Jaguar installed I ran across a little application that strips foreign language support from the OS, leaving essentially only on language on the system. That could be why mine worked, but I'm not sure.

At any rate, I think the Reader installer is faulty at best.