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| Name: acroread | Distribution: SUSE LINUX 10.0 (i586) |
| Version: 7.0.1 | Vendor: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany |
| Release: 4 | Build date: Tue Sep 13 01:43:31 2005 |
| Group: Productivity/Publishing/PDF | Build host: mozart.suse.de |
| Size: 97676908 | Source RPM: acroread-7.0.1-4.nosrc.rpm |
| Packager: http://www.suse.de/feedback | |
| Url: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html | |
| Summary: Adobe Reader for PDF Files | |
The Adobe Reader is proprietary binary-only software.
Normally the Adobe Reader is used to display PDF files on the screen.
For this purpose at least the minimum graphical system must be
installed (the packages which provide the RPM capability
"XFree86-libs"). In this case the command "acroread file.pdf" can be
used to display a PDF file when the X Window System is up and running.
For example: use "acroread
/usr/X11R6/lib/Acrobat7/Reader/help/ENU/Reader.pdf" to display the
"Adobe Reader Help".
The Adobe Reader can also be used as PDF to PostScript converter. For
this purpose no graphical system is required. For example: the command
"acroread -toPostScript -size a4 <file.pdf >file.ps" can be used to
convert a PDF file into a PostScript file which can be sent directly to
a PostScript printer. The command "acroread -help" shows the command
line options.
Please note that Adobe Reader is often the only program able to process
complicated PDF files (e.g. fill in PDF forms). However, there are
security leaks and other bugs which we are not allowed to fix because
the Adobe license forbids to "modify the Software in any way" - see
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/acrrdistribute.html.
Ghostscript is an alternative program for displaying and converting PDF
files. It can be used with the "gv" and "kghostview" (for KDE)
graphical front-ends. Additionally there is the "xpdf" package.
Authors:
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Adobe Systems Incorporated
Commercial, Other License(s), see package
internal MD5: 94eb45c9d1513f5002fe95f9ccc1f949
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* Fri Aug 19 2005 - ghorlacher@suse.de
- Updated the spec file to reflect new version number. 7.0.1
* Thu Aug 18 2005 - ghorlacher@suse.de
- Updating to version 7.0.1 for security issue. bug 105054
* Wed Aug 17 2005 - mfabian@suse.de
- Bugzilla #85416: add workaround to avoid crash when scim is
installed (add "export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim" to the start skript).
* Wed Jul 13 2005 - ghorlacher@suse.de
- Added NoSource: 0 back in to spec file
* Tue Jul 12 2005 - ghorlacher@suse.de
- Updating the changelog to reflect the history better
* Fri Jul 08 2005 - ghorlacher@suse.de
- Updating 9.1 9.2 sles9 with version 7 for bug 95350 - security issue
* Thu Jun 23 2005 - ghorlacher@suse.de
- Added back acroread.png extracting the gif from their COMMON.TAR
file and then installing it to usr/share/pixmaps
* Tue Apr 26 2005 - ro@suse.de
- use NoSource
* Thu Apr 21 2005 - ghorlacher@suse.de
- Updated to Adobe reader 7.0.0 Gold Master
* Fri Apr 08 2005 - ghorlacher@suse.de
- Removed /usr/share/pixmaps/acroread.png from install section for NLD
Which does not have the suse_update_desktop_file setup for this.
* Wed Mar 30 2005 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Added "norootforbuild".
* Wed Mar 16 2005 - ro@suse.de
- block provides and requires for internal-only copies of
system libraries
* Wed Mar 16 2005 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Updated to Adobe Reader 7.0.0 RC1
* Thu Dec 16 2004 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Update to version 5.010 which has a security fix that solves
a problem with malformed mail containing pdf attachments
(see SUSE bugzilla bug #49257).
* Wed Nov 17 2004 - jsmeix@suse.de
- included the icon /usr/share/pixmaps/acroread.png
which is installed by %suse_update_desktop_file
* Wed Aug 04 2004 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Update to version 5.09
* Sun Sep 07 2003 - adrian@suse.de
- raise priority of acroread on pdf files
* Thu Sep 04 2003 - mfabian@suse.de
- unset LC_ALL in start script because Acroread still dumped
core when LC_ALL was set to an UTF-8 locale
(see also Bugzilla #28718).
* Mon Aug 18 2003 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Add preun section because of the following reason:
If Acrobat Reader is run by root then a file ...Font/AdobeFnt*
is created. This file contains the actual font list of Acrobat
Reader's fonts. As the actual hostname becomes part of the
filename it must be deleted by using a wildcard.
* Mon Aug 18 2003 - ro@suse.de
- export NO_BRP_STRIP_DEBUG
* Sat Aug 16 2003 - adrian@suse.de
- install desktop file from kappfinder
* Mon Aug 11 2003 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Removed install_dir.patch because it is version dependend
as RPM_BUILD_ROOT has the version included.
Now it is done by in-place changing (using "perl -pi ...")
$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/X11R6/bin/acroread
* Mon Aug 11 2003 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Security update to version 5.08 from
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/unix/5.x/linux-508.tar.gz
Reason:
A security patch was applied that solves a problem reported
with long URLs in weblinks which can cause a buffer overrun.
See
http://www.heise.de/security/news/meldung/38468
and
bugzilla.suse.de bug number 27666
* Tue Aug 05 2003 - mfabian@suse.de
- use LC_CTYPE=POSIX, otherwise acroread will dump core when
started with LC_CTYPE set to an UTF-8 locale, for example:
"LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 acroread"
* Thu Jun 26 2003 - ro@suse.de
- mention install_dir.patch as patch in specfile
- don't use literal RPM_SOURCE_DIR in specfile
* Thu Jun 26 2003 - jsmeix@suse.de
- added install_dir.patch because "use BuildRoot" sets
RPM_BUILD_ROOT=/var/tmp/acroread-5.07-build
which leads to the wrong install_dir setting.
* Tue Jun 24 2003 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Security update to version 5.0.7 from
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/unix/5.x/linux-507.tar.gz
Reason:
It was possible to execute shell commands which are included
in links in PDF files because the reader executes in this case
"sh -c <program> <embedded link>" - see
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/dab-16.06.03-000/
* Tue Jun 03 2003 - coolo@suse.de
- use BuildRoot
* Mon Feb 24 2003 - ro@suse.de
- move plugin link to /usr/lib/browser-plugins
* Mon Aug 19 2002 - tsieden@suse.de
- security update to version 5.06
* Tue Jun 11 2002 - tsieden@suse.de
- update to version 5.05, cleanup spec file
* Tue Mar 19 2002 - ro@suse.de
- added symlink in /opt/netscape/plugins
* Thu Dec 06 2001 - mfabian@suse.de
- use LC_NUMERIC=POSIX to make really sure that buildtin fonts
are found.
* Sat Dec 09 2000 - nashif@suse.de
- sorted group
* Tue May 09 2000 - ro@suse.de
- use english LANG for acroread to make it find builtin fonts
* Wed Mar 29 2000 - ro@suse.de
- fixed access rights for documentation (#2637)
* Thu Feb 24 2000 - freitag@suse.de
- update to version 4.05, nppdf insert again, works with Netscape
* Fri Jan 14 2000 - ro@suse.de
- removed nppdf.so until we finally get a glibc-based version
* Mon Sep 13 1999 - bs@suse.de
- ran old prepare_spec on spec file to switch to new prepare_spec.
* Sun Aug 22 1999 - bs@suse.de
- added Check
* Fri Aug 20 1999 - uli@suse.de
- fixed Netscape paths
* Tue Jun 22 1999 - uli@suse.de
- update -> 4.0
* Thu Jan 07 1999 - uli@suse.de
- update 3.01 -> 3.02
- now makes use of Adobe-supplied install script
* Tue Nov 11 1997 - ro@suse.de
- new version 3.01
installs under /usr/X11R6/lib/Acrobat3
start script in /usr/X11R6/bin/acroread
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