Acrobat Reader issue

[Louis Masucci]

On an HPUX L2000 - I have acrobat reader mounted out via nis. If I am on the home server directly where acrobat reader resides, acroread woks .. If I am on another box and use the mount point /prod/Acrobat4/bin and run ./arcoread I get thw following error: "cannot find installation directory"

Any suggestions?

Thanks ... lou

Lou_L_Masucci@raytheon.com

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi
Acrobat is looking for full path name to its files ie myserver/dir/dir/dir and because you are running it from a remote system it is looking on the remote systyem for its files.

Solution :- install it on the servers that you require it.

HTH

Paula

[federico_3]

Acrobat is looking for its files in the system you are running it from . the best thing you can do is installing it on the remote machine.

Federico

[Stefan Schulz · Accepted solution]

Hi,

the acroread in the bin directory is actually a shell script. If you look into it, you see in the first lines:

install_dir=/opt/Acrobat4/Reader or someting alike. If your installdir is different from the mountdir you will see the posted errormessage.

Possible solutions:

-modify the script to your needs.
-create your own startscript
-link the directory configured in the startscript to your mountpoint.

Hope this helps. Stefan

[Bruce Regittko_1]

Hi,

Make sure you export the entire Acrobat Reader directory tree and not just the related bin directory.

If you mount it on the client in the same location as on the server, that should do the trick. If, however, you mount it in a different location, you will have to modify the acroread file as noted above.

--Bruce

[Louis Masucci]

Thanks for all the responses ... stefans' response worked well ....