Installation How-to for minimal/small footprint Adobe Reader & Firefox Plugin

I need to install Adobe Reader & Firefox Plugin in a small Linux based environment.
As a proof-of-concept, I downloaded and installed the AdbeRdr9.4.7-1_i486linux_enu.bin
to an NFS share mounted to the Linux thinclient. That worked -- eg, the plugin was available
to the browser so the OS will support that build. However, the client does not have much
writable 'disk' space available and using any type of share (NFS/Samba) is not an option in
the production environment.
I need to use the plugin from within Firefox (6.0+) and have to be able to print via CUPS.
DIsk space available is less than 50Mb, preferrably a lot less!
Is there a guide available for a mimimal installation?
Any sugguestions as to what files/directories I have to copy to the local filesystem for
* an absolute minimum ?
* a bit more if there's room?
Suggestions / pointers appreciated..
Tom

First - what version of Adobe Reader do you have?
And now it gets a little bit complicated. Adobe Reader can be a plugin to Internet Explorer, and it crashes when you try to open an online PDF document. That is not unknown; it happens sometimes.
But when you open the standalone Adobe Reader, it also crashes with a plugin error. This time it must be a plugin to Adobe Reader, not Internet Explorer.
Furthermore you write "the same plugin error window pops up" - so I can only assume that it is a Reader plugin that crashes, not the IE plugin.
What I would try in your situation:
open Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs, and uninstall Adobe Reader;
open Windows Explorer and navigate to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 9.0\Reader and delete all plugin... folders;
reinstall Adobe Reader from http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/9.x/9.3.3/enu/AdbeRdr933_en_US.exe
The path in the second line above could also be ...\Reader 8.0\... depending on your Reader version.

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Experiencing same memory leak problem on Fedora 8 Kernel 2.6.24.3-34 x86_64, glibc 2.7-2,
with FireFox 2.0.0.08, 2.0.0.10, 2.0.0.12, and 2.0.0.13
and AdobeReader 8.1.1 and 8.1.2
b Observations when running any version of FireFox:
*1-when reading a pdf file, System Monitor displays a new process called "ld-linux.so.2";
*2-when getting off the pdf file, process "ld-linux.so.2" remains active;
*3-when reading a new pdf file, another "ld-linux.so.2" is started;
*4-when closing FireFox, one or several "ld-linux.so.2" processes remain active and become runaway processes;
*5-these "ld-linux.so.2" runaway processes eat-up about 1MB per second until system freezes.
b Another observation:
*When starting Adobe Reader, System Monitor does not display "acroread", it displays "ld-linux.so.2"
Adobe Reader launcher uses a script called "acroread"; this script launches the binary either directly
or through "/lib/ld-linux.so.2".
b Further observations:
*1-In FireFox, when Adobe Reader is launched through "/lib/ld-linux.so.2", it becomes a runaway process.
*2-On the other hand, when Adobe Reader is launched directly,
]-System Monitor displays "acroread"
]-acroread always terminates as it supposed to do.
b Solutions:
* 1-add a symbolic link as follows:
]ln -s ld-linux.so.2 /lib/ld-lsb.so.3
*2-or install Package redhat-lsb as follows:
]yum install redhat-lsb
b Conclusion:
It appears that "/lib/ld-linux.so.2" is not handling the "term signal" received from FireFox when exiting a pdf page. When Adobe Reader is started directly, it does handle the "term signal" received from FireFox and terminates correctly.
b Outstanding Question:
Is "/lib/ld-linux.so.2" supposed to handle the "term signal"? If so, this is where the bug is because it does not. If not, why is it used to launch Adobe Reader?
Home my many hours of investigations can help someone.
b Note
Sorry. Problem is NOT entirely solved here! Still some memory leaks at times.

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Hi,
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Here is some background to my question
I'm using Adobe Reader 9.2 and have configured to use the Adobe Reader Active X browser plugin.
which has the effect of launching pdf's within the IE browser rather than launching the full client. This is all working fine
I have a requirement that I need to lockdown certain menu items (for the purpose of this example, lets say "SaveAs" and "Print") and toolbars which I have also done successfully using folder level javascripts. For example I have created a HideMenuItems.js file and placed this in the "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 9.0\Reader\Javascripts", here is a snippet of the file which relate to hiding / removing the SaveAs and Print items
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As an aside If I wanted to hide the same icons from the full adobe reader client I could use app.hideMenuItem("Print");
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or
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Not bothered what the solution is whether its a reg hack - HKCU / HKLM / or javascript line I can add to my HideMenuItems.js, But basically I want to lock down the ability for the users to select print button from all sources including "CTRL + P",
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Basically the printing of the documents in handled by our web app sending a silent print to the adobe application which again works fine, I just need to prevent the users from being able to initiate a print from within the pdf when displaying the pdf in a browser.
Having searched around there is an API called AVAppRegisterForPageViewRightClicks which is supposed to prevent right clicks, But I dont know how to use this, or whether it can be used within my HideMenuItems.js file, tried many different syntaxes but to no avail.
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Cheers
Will

Hi thanks for your response, yes it seems this API is availalbe but there are no examples of how to use it. You mentioned its available in Adobe reader and Adobe Acrobat plugins. Well I'm using the Adobe Reader Active X Browser Plugin so how would I use this API to restrict the Browser plugin.l
I am not a developer writing my own custom plugins, I simply want to use the out of the box adobe reader product, specifically the Active X browser plugin, but I need to be able to customise and restrict what the user is able to do.
The reason I need to do this is that we publish IE on a citrix server which users access to launch this highly secure web based application. The sensitive data that they view is in the forms of PDFs which are viewed by the Adobe reader browser plugin within the browser. The web application controls who can save, export, print etc, so I need to be able to lock down the Adobe Reader Active X browser plugin so that the user cannot initiate save, and print functionality from within the viewed pdf. I've done this successfully by restricting the menu and toolbar items but it is still possible to right click on the viewed pdf and click select print from the context menu. This would cause us a big security flaw, which would result in users that are only supposed to view being able to click print.
I published a desktop (locked down) and published IE (locked down) all successfully with GPOs so the users cannot do anything they are not supposed to do, however Adobe reader it seems cannot be easily locked down and this is a problem as I might have to start looking at viable alterantives. Surely a simple requirement as this could be acheieved with relative ease.
In an ideal world there would be an available GPO template (.ADM file), which could be used to centrally manage these type of settings. I dont even mind writing an ADM myself, I've written many before, but for example what I need is the appropriate registry entries and how they are used to lock down / restrict certain functions so that I can write such an .ADM file.
I dont mind how I achieve this, I just need a way to do it. So if using the API AVAppRegisterForPageViewRightClicks would achieve this, can someone please tell me how I can implement something that would use this API to restrict the right Click Print options for example.
The sort of answer I;m looking for would be
Create a file, paste in this code, place the file is this location xxxxx, this is a per machine fix so will affect all users
or
Edit the regstry and make this HKCU change xxxxx - This is obviously a per user fix so use normal methods to get this into every users profile.
or
Open up the file in this location xxxxxx and add AVAppRegisterForPageViewRightClicks = AlwaysDisable (or whatever the syntax is)
Thanks for you help
Cheers
Will

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You test the plug-in, as well you can, using Acrobat. You also build
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When Iam using Adobe Reader, Iam not able to get the JSObject to set Collab.showAnnotToolsWhenNoCollab = true. Please let me know how to proceed enabling comminting tools for Adobe Reader
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What do you mean you are "using Adobe Reader'? Inside of a browser? Inside of your application? Stand-alone?
What version of Reader?
Is the PDF Reader-Enabled??
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Subject: How to enable commenting tools in Adobe Reader in a C# application
How to enable commenting tools in Adobe Reader in a C# application
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Does any one know the minimal version of Adobe Reader required by CR4E 2.01? When opening the PDF generated by this version of CR4E, sometimes message pops up prompting user to upgrade Adobe Acrobat Reader. I searched the readme file and release notes but could not find such information.
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-Wei Luo

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