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From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Steve Khoo <steve@gordian.com>
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Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader problems...
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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%.  

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

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