Re: Re: Shutting down Acrobat Reader.

[Lutz Haseloff <Lutz.Haseloff@lbapdm.brandenburg.de>]

Hi John, Hi all,

John Culleton schrieb:
> On Monday 27 October 2003 20:44, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>
>>>Thanks for your hint. There is an anomaly if I call Acrobat
>>>Reader from within Gvim session but if I just call Acrobat
>>>reader from a button or a command line everything works
>>>perfectly.
>>
> Just FYI the anomaly is that the full screen window is offset down and 
> to the right, and with no title bar to latch on to it is hard to move 
> the window  back to where it belongs. 
> 
> 
>>what version of the Acrobat Reader are you using and what OS? I
>>can't make it work here. Perhaps the MacOS X Acroread does not
>>support this. "Don't you dare to quit Acrobat Reader" :)
>>
>>Patrick
> 
> 
> Well, it works on the same pdf file in two locations: on Linux using 
> Acrobat Reader 5.05, and on Win 98 SE using Acrobat Reader 5.1.
>  
> I guess I will have to ask some kind soul who has a newer Windows to 
> test the function  for me on Acrobat Reader 6x. Any volunteers? 

On my WinXP [ExitViewer] works on the Acrobat Reader 5.x but not
on 6.0.
I can do further tests for you. I can test on NT4, 2K and XP.

> Windows users are in the vast majority and hence the target market for 
> the e-book I am crafting.
>  

> I tried to download Acrobat Reader 6.0 to the Win 98SE partition, but 
> then it said I needed to upgrade Internet Explorer and that got into 
> an endless loop and.... (I don't use Windows much!)

There is a Download Option called "Do not use Adobe Download Manager."
If checked, you download the full Windows Installer, not the one
that needs the Internet Explorer.

>  So I downloaded Acrobat Reader 5.1 for Windows 98 via Linux (!) and 
> moved it over to the Desktop folder on the Win partition. It works 
> fine. 

Greetings Lutz