When I try to open one of the pdf help files from within houdini I get an “acrobat reader not installed” msg. How can i associate these with one of the existing pdf viewers on Linux

Thanks

tallkien

http://www.sidefx.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1237&highlight=acrobat [sidefx.com]

Can someone please tell me what this means and how to fix it

Warning: charset “UTF-8” not supported, using “ISO8859-1”.


Get it when I run Acrobat reader,

Thanks
tallkien

hmmm…no idea….are you using some kind of wacky keyboard? (as in non-english) although I don't know why that would make any difference… :?

If acrobat reader doesn't work, try to use “xpdf” or “kpdf” if you run a KDE environment

Can someone please tell me what this means and how to fix it
Warning: charset “UTF-8” not supported, using “ISO8859-1”.

I assume you're running RH8 or 9?

As root, edit the acroread script(it's actually just a script, not an executable) and add:

LANG=en_US
export LANG

near the beginning of it. Don't use xpdf(bleh )

One of the joys of using RH greater than v7… :twisted:

Cheers,

J.C.

Thanks JColdrick…it works like a charm. I have been trying to get this to work for ages.

OK it works alright but just on a side note, How would I link Houdini's help system with xpdf or other app? Not that i need to anymore… :wink:

Usually your desktop handles all of this under file associations. For instance, in KDE 3(which I'm running) I go under:

Preferences/File Browsing/File Associations

and look under “text” and then “pdf” and there's good ol' acroread. You could change that to whatever you want. I'm fairly certain Houdini will respect that since I've never notified Houdini over this issue and acroread isn't the default pdf reader - I had to set that up in KDE.

Gnome sets things up in a similar fashion.

I'm unsure(and doubtful) that there's a Houdini-specific setting for this. Possibly it would be mozilla-associated(since it's a porta-mozilla engine they're using). The desktop-wide setting is usually fine for most…

Cheers,

J.C.