HOWTO_Ebooks

Installing

To install Adobe Acrobat Reader, emerge app-text/acroread:

emerge -av acroread

This should install the program. You can then run it from the command line with the following command.

acroread

Enable Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 with DRM

This section will describe reading e-books from Amazon in Linux using the Microsoft Windows version of Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 and CrossOver Office.

Environment Setup

The first order of business is to set up an environment for Adobe Reader to operate in.

• emerge "Crossover Office":

emerge crossover-office-pro-bin

• Install Internet Explorer 6 under a Microsoft Windows 2000 bottle (skip the DCOM installation!). See HOWTO Install Internet Explorer 6 SP1
• Install Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 under a Microsoft Windows 98 bottle.
• Copy all new Microsoft Windows 98 system DLLs to Win2k setup

cp -u ~/.cxoffice/win98/drive_c/Windows/System/* ~/.cxoffice/win2000/drive_c/Windows/System/

• Reinstall Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 under the Microsoft Windows 2000 bottle, see step 2.

Installing Adobe Reader 7

• Download Adobe Reader Full Installation for Microsoft Windows 2000/XP from Adobe's Website. Install to default and follow instructions.
• Obtain activation key from Adobe DRM Activation. Save this on your local disk to something like SNXXXXX.edn
• Activate Adobe Reader with DRM

/opt/cxoffice/bin/wine --bottle win2000 ~/.cxoffice/win2000/drive_c/Program\ Files/Adobe/Acrobat\ 7.0/Reader/AcroRd32.exe ~/SNXXXXX.edn

• Restart Acrobat Reader when finished activation.

Installing e-books

To install e-books, use this command:

/opt/cxoffice/bin/wine --bottle win2000 ~/.cxoffice/win2000/drive_c/Program\ Files/Adobe/Acrobat\ 7.0/Reader/AcroRd32.exe ~/ebx.edt

Enabling Acroread as a web browser plugin

If you would like to view PDF files in your favorite web browser, read through the following sections.

Install Acroread with nsplugin Flag

Make sure you have nsplugin set in your /etc/portage/package.use file.

app-text/acroread nsplugin

Then, emerge app-text/acroread.

emerge -av acroread

Make sure it says +nsplugin not -nsplugin in the emerge prompt.

 These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
 
 Calculating dependencies ...done!
 [ebuild   R   ] app-text/acroread-7.0.1.1  +ldap '''+nsplugin''' 0 kB 
 
 Total size of downloads: 0 kB

If you have problems with the PDF being displayed correctly, run acroread and change the DPI setting in the preferences.

Acrobat Reader External Links

• See here for more help
• 64-bit version thread