Adobe Reader
The free Adobe Reader (formerly Adobe Acrobat Reader) allows you to view, navigate, and print PDF files across all major computing platforms. Adobe Reader is the free viewing companion to Adobe Acrobat and to Acrobat Capture software.
| Tags | multimedia Graphics Viewers |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux AIX HP-UX Solaris |
Recent releases
- 17 Jun 2009 17:30
Changes: Several security vulnerabilities allowing remote code execution or denials of service were resolved. They have been reported as CVE-2009-0198, CVE-2009-0509, CVE-2009-0510, CVE-2009-0511, CVE-2009-0512, CVE-2009-0888, CVE-2009-0889, CVE-2009-1855, CVE-2009-1856, CVE-2009-1857, CVE-2009-1858, CVE-2009-1859, and CVE-2009-1861.
- 24 May 2009 13:57
Changes: Two security vulnerabilites with potential exploits, reported as CVE-2009-1492 and CVE-2009-1493, were resolved.
- 26 Mar 2009 14:02
Changes: Launch time and performance were vastly improved. Optional tabbed viewing was introduced. Better integration with multiple distributions was achieved. Support for PDF Portfolios and for native display of rich media was added. Documents can now be opened from stdin. Printing was enhanced with a new print dialog and a new printer properties dialog, and with full support for command line options. IPv6 support was added. A man page was added. Many bugs were fixed.
- 17 Nov 2008 00:09
Changes: Critical security fixes for potential crashes and remote code execution, reported as CVE-2008-2992, CVE-2008-2549, CVE-2008-4812, CVE-2008-4813, CVE-2008-4817, CVE-2008-4816, CVE-2008-4814, and CVE-2008-4815, were made. Several other issues were fixed.
- 24 Jul 2008 11:44
Changes: A critical vulnerability that could cause the application to crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system was fixed. A potential privilege escalation issue was resolved. An input validation issue in a JavaScript method that could potentially lead to remote code execution was fixed. Updating is strongly recommended.
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Recent commentsRe: No version 6 of Adobe Acrobat Reader for Linux
> Dispate the claim of Adobe as pdf a
> format to be easly used on any system
> there is no a version 6 of Adobe Acrobat
> Reader.
Here here! How long has it been since 6 was released on Windows? 1 year? 2 years?
Either change the name from Portable Document Format to Windows Document Format, or port your reader to Linux. Drop the Motif crap, buy a Qt license and get done with it.
No version 6 of Adobe Acrobat Reader for Linux
Dispate the claim of Adobe as pdf a format to be easly used on any system there is no a version 6 of Adobe Acrobat Reader.
I often have an ugly pop up windows says me to update to a newer version. I click OK and I download the same version I already have (becouse is the last). But I can not have version 6 and I can not use the function that need version 6
Re: Anyone know how to resolve this?
Just wanted to say thanks for the tip. I used it and it worked (running Redhat 9)
>
> % I installed Acroreader on my Linux
> box
> % that is running RedHat 8 and I am
> % recieving this nice little error when
> % trying to launch it. I haven't been
> % able to find anything about this
> message
> % in any of the documentation that
> Adobe
> % has made public. Thanks (oh yeah i am
> a
> % newbie.)
> %
> % Warning: charset "UTF-8"
> not
> % supported, using
> "ISO8859-1".
> % Aborted
> %
>
>
> greets
>
> had same problem and was researching
> when ran across your post. found the
> answer:
>
> you need to set your LANG variable to C,
> which is not the default in newer redhat
> releases. i edited the
> /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread script
> and added:
>
> LANG=C; export LANG
>
> near the top. it worked for me.
>
> cheers. alex.
>
>
Re: Anyone know how to resolve this?
> same problem. Worked perfectly. thanks
>
>
> %
> % % I installed Acroreader on my Linux
> % box
> % % that is running RedHat 8 and I am
> % % recieving this nice little error
> when
> % % trying to launch it. I haven't
> been
> % % able to find anything about this
> % message
> % % in any of the documentation that
> % Adobe
> % % has made public. Thanks (oh yeah i
> am
> % a
> % % newbie.)
> % %
> % % Warning: charset "UTF-8"
> % not
> % % supported, using
> % "ISO8859-1".
> % % Aborted
> % %
> %
> %
> % greets
> %
> % had same problem and was researching
> % when ran across your post. found the
> % answer:
> %
> % you need to set your LANG variable to
> C,
> % which is not the default in newer
> redhat
> % releases. i edited the
> % /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread
> script
> % and added:
> %
> % LANG=C; export LANG
> %
> % near the top. it worked for me.
> %
> % cheers. alex.
> %
> %
>
>
>
you all can edit /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread and put top of the file,
LANG=eng_US
export LANG
Re: Anyone know how to resolve this?
Thanks -- worked great.
>
> % I installed Acroreader on my Linux
> box
> % that is running RedHat 8 and I am
> % recieving this nice little error when
> % trying to launch it. I haven't been
> % able to find anything about this
> message
> % in any of the documentation that
> Adobe
> % has made public. Thanks (oh yeah i am
> a
> % newbie.)
> %
> % Warning: charset "UTF-8"
> not
> % supported, using
> "ISO8859-1".
> % Aborted
> %
>
>
> greets
>
> had same problem and was researching
> when ran across your post. found the
> answer:
>
> you need to set your LANG variable to C,
> which is not the default in newer redhat
> releases. i edited the
> /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread script
> and added:
>
> LANG=C; export LANG
>
> near the top. it worked for me.
>
> cheers. alex.
>
>