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Date:      03 Jan 1997 18:09:07 -0800
From:      Steve Khoo <steve@gordian.com>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Acrobat Reader problems...
Message-ID:  <un7mlu2nuk.fsf@ares.gordian.com>
In-Reply-To: Doug White's message of Fri, 3 Jan 1997 16:09:05 -0800 (PST)
References:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.970103160749.25343E-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>

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Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> writes:

> 
> On 2 Jan 1997, Steve Khoo wrote:
> 
> > > > I get the message "Unable to extract the embeded font 'XXXXXX'.  Some
> > > > characters may not display or print correctly." when I run as a user
> > > > other than root.  If I run as the root user all is well.  Any ideas?
> > > 
> > > Permissions.  Verify your fonts are world-readable.
> > 
> > I already checked that.  I even did "chmod -R a+r
> > /usr/local/Acrobat3".  It doesn't help.
> > 
> > I have enough disk space also.
> > 
> > in /usr/local/Acrobat3/Reader/intellinux/bin/.
> > 
> > If I make it suid all is well.
> > 
> > Any thoughts?
> 
> I still think it's permissions.  Try running df -k while it's running and
> look for any FS's over 100%.  
> 

I tried this.  No luck...   All systems seems fine.

> There is also xpdf, which is native FreeBSD...
> 

I know about xpdf.  It's just that acroread is much nicer...  For now,
I'm going to leave it suid 'til I have some more time to check it out.

> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
> 
> 




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