Frank Winkler <frank-usenet@kfw-family.org> writes:

>Unfortunately, I had to migrate our SunRay-Server away from a SPARC onto an
>AMD box. So far, so good - but the lack of AcroRead and the fact that gpdf
>is a real PITA are becoming more and more disturbing.

Yes, that is still a large issue for Solaris/x86 customers.

Acroread 8.1.1 is also only available on SPARC (and is quite a pita to
install because it requires you to find all kinds of libraries it needs;
some of which are indeed not part of S10 but on Solaris Nevada it should
just run out of the box)

>The current "solution" is acroread through a ssh tunnel but that's not
>really cool. Allegedly, Evince is much better than gpdf but I didn't get it
>running yet.

>Does anybody know if the current x64 hype will have any influence on the
>availability of a Solaris/x64 build of AcroRead? Or what about the Linux
>binary compatibility libs which have finally made it into HW 08/2007? Could
>that be a reliable solution?

Your guess is as good as ours; they have not wanted to do the work
until now and say so in the Acroread FAQ (or blog someplace)
I'd certainly suggest asking Adobe for it.

The Linux branded zone can run one form of acroread but it will need some
setting up before you can have an automatically started acroread in the
zone and give it access to a system which looks locally.

I'm not sure what else you mean with "Linux compatibility libs".


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