Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:28:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: Alexander@leidinger.net (Alexander Leidinger) Cc: Roman Divacky <rdivacky@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, bsam@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printing with Acrobat Reader Message-ID: <200704121428.l3CESbOw076122@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20070412152642.76pd6vw0000sk88g@webmail.leidinger.net>
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Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > That's correct. Obviously Adobe Reader performs some kind > > of sanity check on the path (if one is given), and for some > > reason it always prepends /compat/linux in that case. > > No linux application does this, it's the kernel. It tries with the > compat path first and then with the normal path. I don't know why it > does not work in acroread, I never investigated this issue. An > application should not be able to know if the command is from compat > or not. Adobe Reader does. Dont ask me how and why, but it does. Any other explanation of the symptom is even less likely. As a matter of fact, when I configure it to use /usr/bin/lpr for printing, it reports "/usr/bin/lpr not found", and when I copy /usr/bin/lpr to /compat/linux/usr/bin/lpr, it works. > I'm a little bit puzzled, but not puzzled enough to > investigate further. OK. :-) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "FreeBSD is Yoda, Linux is Luke Skywalker" -- Daniel C. Sobral
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