Ubuntu :: Adobe Reader Invisible Menus - Unreadable Gray Drop Down
Aug 9, 2011
I've just scrubbed Windows 7 starter edition and installed Ubuntu 10.10 (netbook?) on an Asus EEE PC 1008HA. When I installed Adobe Reader(9.4.1-1_i486), I do not see any of the menus. It seems to work fine apart from that, but the main reason I want to use it is the "read aloud" functionality. The menus are visible at the top of the screen, "File Edit View Document Window Help" but as soon as I click any of these I just get a grey drop down, with grey writing, so I obviously can't read any of the menus.
I'm happy to use something other than Adobe Reader, but I've tried xpdf (very old) and kpdf (not maintained) and ePDFViewer, but none of these seem to have the "read aloud" functionality. As it happens, currently the read aloud doesn't even work with Adobe Reader, because when I right click and choose Page Display Preferences, all the options for read aloud are greyed out... but I'll probably be able to figure that one out myself if I can get the menus to appear.
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Jan 17, 2010
I've just upgraded to 9.10 and found that the menus in Open Office are unintelligible gray blocks.
Many apps are fine, like Firefox, gimp and thunderbird, but OO is scrogged up. I also noticed that Quanta has unintelligible sub menus although the top level menus are readable. The lists of files in Quanta are gray blocks, but if you click on a folder, the file names appear, then chaneg back to gray blocks if you click the folder again. Tried reinstalling Quanta but no success.
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Sep 25, 2010
I'm looking for alternative to Adobe Acrobat Reader, a slim free PDF Reader with browser plugin, for example for Iceweasel.
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May 7, 2011
On a Debian system, I installed Adobe Acrobat Reader using the Linux binary (AdbeRdr9.4.2-1_i486linux_enu.bin) downloaded from Adobe's website. I realized there's a way to install it from a Debian package as opposed to Adobe's binary (and be able to keep up better with security updates), so I want to remove Adobe's version and install the Debian package. What's the right way to uninstall Reader when it was installed this way?
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Apr 18, 2010
I recently found that after installing Skype on Ubuntu 10.04 - Lucid Lynx the menus were unreadable due to dark text on a dark background.I have posted the work around here:-[URL]
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May 6, 2010
I just upgraded to 10.04, and now I can't figure out how to customize the color of the system drop-down menus (Applications > Accessories, etc.). After I made a change to the appearance, the colors became all washed out (as in the screenshot), and now I can't figure out how to darken the drop-down menus. Anybody have any tips? My ultimate goal is a darkened version of the new Ambiance theme (think XFCE Dusk colors with Ambiance buttons and layout).If it helps, I just upgraded from 9.10 to 10.04, and I've had KDE, XFCE, and GNOME all installed (and most of each set is still there, as I'm experimenting with each one).Also, the system tray is no longer home to a sound volume button, is it supposed to be that way? How to I get one back up there?
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Mar 25, 2011
I noticed with the recent version of Ubuntu, 10.10 that the drop down menus, when selected the sub menus doi not appear straight away. I have to repeatedly go up and down the menu until they appear. They often open a blank box and sometime once selected leave the menu on the screen. This happens on all my machines.
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Jan 13, 2010
The Update Manager told me to update my Firefox. Now the menus do not appear when I click on "File", "Edit" etc. They do not appear with the short-cut keys (Alt-F etc). Nor do the list boxes unroll for the address bar or to select different search engines.
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Aug 25, 2010
There is a strange gray bar under the search bar (top left corner) and the Login and Shop drop-down menus won't work for some reason.
I'm using Lucid lynx and the default FireFox browser that comes with it.
I guess I should note that I don't have problems with drop down menus on other websites.
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Jun 27, 2011
I am running Lucid Lynx and find that when I look at a page on photobucket that I get different views on chromium 12.0.742.91 and firefox 3.6.18.
The bad effect is at [url] The normal appearance is at [url]
Has anyone seen anything like this? I assume that photobucket is using Flash - I have shockwave flash 10.3 r181 from the distro.
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Jul 21, 2011
I'm using Fedora 15, Gnome Shell. Standard window decoration (Adwaita).
Some applications use one set of colors for drop-down menus; other applications use another set of colors.
Nautilus, e.g., uses a white / bright blue combination. Quodlibet and Firefox both use a greyish blue. see attached screenshots.
Are your Gnome applications also doing this sort of thing in Fedora 15 and Gnome Shell?
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Aug 7, 2011
This is a problem I had in Ubuntu some years ago that just seemed to go away; sporadically I will want to select a website by positioning the cursor over the drop-down arrow to the right side of the url box- after the list is displayed it will vanish immediately when I attempt to position the cursor over it to make a selection. Minimizing then maximizing Firefox resolves it.
A minor problem yes - but it would be nice to not have to deal with it.
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Mar 3, 2010
I have Adobe Acrobat installed in Ubuntu 9.10 and want to print out PDF docs through Adobe reader. I want to use 'Reader because it allows me to do multiple pages on one sheet. BUT Adobe does not let you print to file a PDF. HOW can I set that up.
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May 27, 2010
I'm using Lucid and when I try to install it from the ubuntu software center is says ' this software is available from the 'lucid-partner' source, which you are not currently using'.
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Aug 24, 2010
My firefox will not open a pdf (Adobe reader/acroread) directly. An error comes up that I need to change my preferences. I have gone into preferences, but there is no area for pdf reader in the preferences panel. I have tried reinstalling both acroread, and adobe reader bin file from adobe website, to no avail.
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Nov 16, 2010
Firefox v 3.6.12 running in Ubuntu 10.10
When a pdf file is accessed I get redirected to Adobe website to download AdbeRdr9.4-1_i486linux_enu.bin (for Linux).
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Feb 25, 2011
I don't know how to install this AdbeRdr9.4-1_i486linux_enu.bin on Ubuntu 10.4.I have tried but I don't get it.What must I do to install it because Firefox is crashing a lot and I checked my plugins it said adobe reader is vulnerable
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Jun 11, 2010
I don't know why and when the Adobe Reader 8 was installed in my system and its icon appears in the Application-> Office menu. Its interface is not English. So I want to uninstall it. I cannot find it in the list of System-> Administration-> Add/Remove Software.
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Jul 19, 2010
I installed adobe reader quite some time back. It was working fine. Nowadays it gets stuck up and then the screen fades out and then after some seconds it gets back to normal. What could be the problem.
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Feb 20, 2010
I have just updated my system from openSuse 11.1 to openSuse 11.2, all is working fine. Now I would like to install the Adobe Reader program downloading it from the official website. I can use Evince to see PDF files... Unfortunately Evince shows strange defects over the images contained in the PDF file (strange white vertical lines and other little things).
I want try to use the original Adobe reader to check if those defects will go away so I can print the document (on Windows the pdf file is displayed perfectly). I have gone to this address to download the latest version:
Adobe - Adobe Reader : For Unix : Adobe Reader 9.3.1 Linux and Solaris update - multiple languages
When I presse the "Download" button I go to another page. In this page I select the 9.3.1 version and then the "enu" directory (I suppose that "enu" stays for "english", I'm right? )
After that I block myself; as I see there are only i386 and i486 version available, but I have the i586 architecture. This means that the Adobe Reader is not available for my Linux system? Maybe I have got the wrong download address?
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Jul 16, 2010
I'm trying to install Adobe Reader 9 on Ubuntu 10. I'd be happiest to apt-get install something, but I'm not picky. I downloaded a file from the web site, but neither I nor Ubuntu knew what to do with it. What is the easiest way to get this done?
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Feb 24, 2010
I have this weird Problem with Adobe Reader. When I continuously press the down/up arrow key, it's not continuously scrolling which is the expected behavior. This works perfectly fine with other PDF Readers but sometimes 3rd party PDF Readers do not render the pages well enough. Is anyone else having this problem?
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Mar 17, 2011
I just downloaded the Adobe Reader, but I couldn't open up the program, and don't know which program to use to open it up since it's in .bin format.
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Jun 1, 2011
Im unable to print pdfs. the printer only gives me a blank page. what do i need so it can print? I tried going to "advanced" and checking "print as image" but it does not work. Printer still gives me a blank page.
I have an HP printer Photosmart C6100 series.
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Jan 4, 2010
Debian 5.0 32bit
Iceweasel 3.0.6
On browsing a document on a website it popup;Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 (with Asian Font pack installed) or above is required for viewing this document. Please install the required software. I couldn't find its package is on repo
Adobe Reader: [URL]
Which package shall I download? Where shall I retain the package to install so that it can be detected on browsing?
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Oct 4, 2009
I have successfully installed Adobe Reader 9.1. It shows up in firefox as a plugin properly. It does not show up in edit->preferences as an Application (not sure if that matters). However when I click on a PDF to download, I get an error in the browser:
"Could not launch Adobe Reader 9.1.2. Please make sure it exists in PATH variable in the environment. If the problem persists, please reinstall the application."
I put the /opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin in my PATH in ~/.bashrc and even rebooted to make sure all was set. I still get the same message. Where do I set my PATH to make this work?
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Oct 19, 2010
I have recently installed Adobe reader. But I just cant seem to open any pdf file using it.
When I give the command "acroread <filename>" from the terminal it gives me a error saying:
/usr/bin/acroread: line 486: [: -ge: unary operator expected
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May 7, 2009
Ubuntu 8.04
Firefox
Adobe Reader 9
Adobe Reader doesn't start on browser. On browsing websites having .pdf fire they ask to install Adobe Reader. However Adobe Reader 9 is running on this box.
Applications -> Office -> Adobe Reader 9
starts the application.
$ locate nppdf.so
Code:
/opt/Adobe/Reader9/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so
/root/.mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins/nppdf.so
/usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/nppdf.so
[Code].....
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Feb 15, 2011
I downloaded install kit(.tar.gz) from Adobe website, it seems only 32bit kit there. Anyway, it can install successfully, but when running, systems reports "...can not find /lib/ld-linux.so.2". But the OS is 64bit Fedora, the /lib64 contain *.so.2 library. How can I do to make Adobe reader run on my 64bit linux?
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Aug 22, 2010
I'm using fedora 13 (64 bit) distro. I had installed adobe reader recently through the "bin" file.
everything installed correctly in the "opt/adobe" directory. But after installation when I tried to open a pdf document using adobe reader it doesn't respond anything. Even when I tried to open it through the kernel I got the error message as follows...
Code: [pradeep@localhost ~]$ acroread
/opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading shared libraries: libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[pradeep@localhost ~]$ s
Should I do anything else after installing that bin file?
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