Dear All I need to burn data cd on my CentOS and open the pdf file on my MS Windows client . My cd drive is at /dev/cdrom that is mounted as /mnt/cdrom . To this end , I issued as the following : #cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cdrom myfile But the file cannot be opened on ms MS Windows , nor the cd is usable afterwards . Can you please let me know how can I burn this data cd ? Thank you
hadi motamedi wrote:
Dear All I need to burn data cd on my CentOS and open the pdf file on my MS Windows client . My cd drive is at /dev/cdrom that is mounted as /mnt/cdrom . To this end , I issued as the following : #cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cdrom myfile But the file cannot be opened on ms MS Windows , nor the cd is usable afterwards . Can you please let me know how can I burn this data cd ?
cdrecord needs a .ISO file as its input. you can use mkisofs to create one fromm file(s), its a fairly complex command with a LOT of options, but at its simplest, creating a simple RockRidge CD-ROM,
mkisofs -o mycd.iso -r dir-with-files
the specified dir will become the root of the CD. then you can use cdrecord to burn mycd.iso ... see the respective man pages for more options.
cdrecord needs a .ISO file as its input. you can use mkisofs to create
one fromm file(s), its a fairly complex command with a LOT of options, but at its simplest, creating a simple RockRidge CD-ROM,
mkisofs -o mycd.iso -r dir-with-files
the specified dir will become the root of the CD. then you can use cdrecord to burn mycd.iso ... see the respective man pages for more options.
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Thank you for your help . To this end , I am now able to burn my pdf file onto data cd on my CentOS . I tried to install Adobe on my CentOS , as the following : #yum install AdobeReader_enu But it didn't get through. Can you please let me know how I can have it so I no longer need to open the pdf files on my MS Windows client?
hadi motamedi wrote:
Thank you for your help . To this end , I am now able to burn my pdf file onto data cd on my CentOS . I tried to install Adobe on my CentOS , as the following : #yum install AdobeReader_enu But it didn't get through. Can you please let me know how I can have it so I no longer need to open the pdf files on my MS Windows client?
i don''t believe any of Adobe's products would be found on a Yum repository. Adobe's Reader is here, http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=10&platform=u... http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=10&platform=unix
there's also a variety of opensource/thirdparty PDF viewers, including evince, kpdf, xpdf, etc. Evince is the standard document viewer in Gnome, and is in the base repo for centos 5
i don''t believe any of Adobe's products would be found on a Yum repository. Adobe's Reader is here, http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=10&platform=u... < http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=10&platform=u...
there's also a variety of opensource/thirdparty PDF viewers, including evince, kpdf, xpdf, etc. Evince is the standard document viewer in Gnome, and is in the base repo for centos 5
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Thank you very much . I found that way of installing the Adobe on CentOS via yum on the web . I got note from your comment and I can open my pdf file with evince . Thank you again
At Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:51:56 -0800 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
hadi motamedi wrote:
Thank you for your help . To this end , I am now able to burn my pdf file onto data cd on my CentOS . I tried to install Adobe on my CentOS , as the following : #yum install AdobeReader_enu But it didn't get through. Can you please let me know how I can have it so I no longer need to open the pdf files on my MS Windows client?
i don''t believe any of Adobe's products would be found on a Yum repository.
Adobe has a repo just for their free products (Adobe Reader, Flash Plugin).
Adobe's Reader is here, http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=10&platform=u... http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=10&platform=unix
there's also a variety of opensource/thirdparty PDF viewers, including evince, kpdf, xpdf, etc. Evince is the standard document viewer in Gnome, and is in the base repo for centos 5
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At Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:39:58 +0000 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
cdrecord needs a .ISO file as its input. you can use mkisofs to create
one fromm file(s), its a fairly complex command with a LOT of options, but at its simplest, creating a simple RockRidge CD-ROM,
mkisofs -o mycd.iso -r dir-with-files
the specified dir will become the root of the CD. then you can use cdrecord to burn mycd.iso ... see the respective man pages for more options.
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Thank you for your help . To this end , I am now able to burn my pdf file onto data cd on my CentOS . I tried to install Adobe on my CentOS , as the following : #yum install AdobeReader_enu But it didn't get through. Can you please let me know how I can have it so I no longer need to open the pdf files on my MS Windows client?
You don't *really* need Adobe Reader under CentOS. There are *lots* of open source, third party PDF readers:
evince -- should already be installed (part of the base CentOS system) gv -- available from epel xpdf -- also available from epel
Ghostscript will display a PDF file, although Ghostscript has no GUI (that is what gv is for). Ghostscript also includes some little scripts, including pdf2ps, which will convert a PDF file to a PostScript file. The resulting PostScript can then be sent to your printer:
pdf2ps somepdffile.pdf - | lpr
(Go to wiki.centos.org and search for 'third party repositories' and setup the EPel repository -- this will allow you to install gv and xpdf.)
If you *really* must have Adobe Reader, you need to install the Adobe yum repository. Visit the Adobe site to get the URL of the Adobe repo RPM.
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On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 11:02 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
You don't *really* need Adobe Reader under CentOS.
Depends on what your needs are.
There are *lots* of open source, third party PDF readers:
True. Sadly, they don't open and display ALL pdf files correctly.
I have been advised that poppler has now been "fixed" so some of these issues will go away effective with the release of Fedora 13, but I have no idea when/how or if that will migrate into Centos. The Fedora folks apparently have no intention of backporting it to Fedora 12, so it doesn't look too promising for the time being.
At Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:27:38 -0600 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 11:02 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
You don't *really* need Adobe Reader under CentOS.
Depends on what your needs are.
There are *lots* of open source, third party PDF readers:
True. Sadly, they don't open and display ALL pdf files correctly.
Neither does Adobe Reader! I've envountered PDF files that have been simply malformed on some level. Otherwise it is a matter of how bleeding edge the PDF file is, along with issues like non-embeded non-standard font references (and this includes PDF files supposedly created by Adobe Distiller!). *I* find Adobe Reader's GUI horrible -- I just plain do not like it.
I have been advised that poppler has now been "fixed" so some of these issues will go away effective with the release of Fedora 13, but I have no idea when/how or if that will migrate into Centos. The Fedora folks apparently have no intention of backporting it to Fedora 12, so it doesn't look too promising for the time being.
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Robert Heller heller@deepsoft.com wrote:
Neither does Adobe Reader! I've envountered PDF files that have been simply malformed on some level. Otherwise it is a matter of how bleeding edge the PDF file is, along with issues like non-embeded non-standard font references (and this includes PDF files supposedly created by Adobe Distiller!). *I* find Adobe Reader's GUI horrible -- I just plain do not like it.
I only have two complaints about AR:
1) It takes forever to get going - a minute or two at startup - seriously.
2) I have a pdf that contains savable fill-in form information, and AR on CentOS refuses to work with it (it start to read the file and quits). eVince can read it, but I can't fill in the form with it. I have to use AR on Windoze to work with it. I have complained to Adobe about this, along with the fact that they don't have any decent support for their "free" products, but so far no response (duh - they think that community forums to which I cannot post are sufficient).
Yes, I realize that AR is a free product, but that's no excuse. So are OOo, Mozilla and a whole slew of other, much larger scale products (e.g., CentOS), and yet they all have methods for obtaining support and reporting bugs.
No, it's not worth $600 (or whatever Acrobat costs these days) for me, a broke, individual user trying to scrape by on next to no income (I can't afford the $300 scanner that comes with a free copy of Acrobat, or did, either), but that's no excuse. A good product deserves good support, and ANY software product should have a mechanism for reporting bugs. Period.
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On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 16:36 -0700, MHR wrote:
It takes forever to get going - a minute or two at startup - seriously.
/opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/plug_ins /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/plug_ins3d
If you don't need those plugins, rename those directories to something else and acroread will load immensely faster.
At Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:36:08 -0700 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Robert Heller heller@deepsoft.com wrote:
Neither does Adobe Reader! I've envountered PDF files that have been simply malformed on some level. Otherwise it is a matter of how bleeding edge the PDF file is, along with issues like non-embeded non-standard font references (and this includes PDF files supposedly created by Adobe Distiller!). *I* find Adobe Reader's GUI horrible -- I just plain do not like it.
I only have two complaints about AR:
It takes forever to get going - a minute or two at startup - seriously.
I have a pdf that contains savable fill-in form information, and AR
on CentOS refuses to work with it (it start to read the file and quits). eVince can read it, but I can't fill in the form with it. I
The (free!) pdftk package can fill in a PDF file-in form. Not point and click and you need to create a file to drive the fill-in process, generally by 'reverse engineering' the form, but it is doable.
have to use AR on Windoze to work with it. I have complained to Adobe about this, along with the fact that they don't have any decent support for their "free" products, but so far no response (duh - they think that community forums to which I cannot post are sufficient).
Yes, I realize that AR is a free product, but that's no excuse. So are OOo, Mozilla and a whole slew of other, much larger scale products (e.g., CentOS), and yet they all have methods for obtaining support and reporting bugs.
No, it's not worth $600 (or whatever Acrobat costs these days) for me, a broke, individual user trying to scrape by on next to no income (I can't afford the $300 scanner that comes with a free copy of Acrobat, or did, either), but that's no excuse. A good product deserves good support, and ANY software product should have a mechanism for reporting bugs. Period.
Adobe has a niche market of sorts and as long as they can keep that market, they are not really going to change. Of all of the major closed-source 'comodity' software vendors, they are possibly the least obnoxious, but that is not really saying much.
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Robert Heller wrote: <snip>
Neither does Adobe Reader! I've envountered PDF files that have been simply malformed on some level. Otherwise it is a matter of how bleeding edge the PDF file is, along with issues like non-embeded non-standard font references (and this includes PDF files supposedly created by Adobe Distiller!). *I* find Adobe Reader's GUI horrible -- I just plain do not like it.
+1 My favorite is kpdf -- but I use KDE. I have no idea how it plays with a Gnome desktop.
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:24:56PM -0500, Robert wrote:
My favorite is kpdf -- but I use KDE. I have no idea how it plays with a Gnome desktop.
kpdf works fine in blackbox, so I see no reason it wouldn't work fine in GNOME. My preferred choice would be xpdf, but that doesn't seem to be included in RHEL/CentOS any longer, and I haven't worked up the effort to install it myself from source.
--keith
Keith Keller wrote:
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:24:56PM -0500, Robert wrote:
My favorite is kpdf -- but I use KDE. I have no idea how it plays with a Gnome desktop.
kpdf works fine in blackbox, so I see no reason it wouldn't work fine in GNOME. My preferred choice would be xpdf, but that doesn't seem to be included in RHEL/CentOS any longer, and I haven't worked up the effort to install it myself from source.
Xpdf is the back end for kpdf (kde) and gpdf (gnome).... gpdf has evolved into Evince.
evince is in the base distribution.
On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 21:22 -0700, Keith Keller wrote:
My preferred choice would be xpdf, but that doesn't seem to be included in RHEL/CentOS any longer, and I haven't worked up the effort to install it myself from source.
Name : xpdf Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 3.02 Vendor: Fedora Project Release : 15.el5 Build Date: Fri 16 Oct 2009 02:56:59 PM CST Install Date: Fri 20 Nov 2009 10:30:19 PM CST Build Host: x86-6.fedora.phx.redhat.com Group : Applications/Publishing Source RPM: xpdf-3.02-15.el5.src.rpm Size : 2655329 License: GPLv2 Signature : DSA/SHA1, Wed 21 Oct 2009 08:34:36 AM CST, Key ID 119cc036217521f6 Packager : Fedora Project URL : http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/ Summary : A PDF file viewer for the X Window System Description : Xpdf is an X Window System based viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Xpdf is a small and efficient program which uses standard X fonts.
At Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:22:46 -0700 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:24:56PM -0500, Robert wrote:
My favorite is kpdf -- but I use KDE. I have no idea how it plays with a Gnome desktop.
kpdf works fine in blackbox, so I see no reason it wouldn't work fine in GNOME. My preferred choice would be xpdf, but that doesn't seem to be included in RHEL/CentOS any longer, and I haven't worked up the effort to install it myself from source.
xpdf is available via the epel repo.
--keith
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 11:38 PM, hadi motamedi motamedi24@gmail.com wrote:
Dear All I need to burn data cd on my CentOS and open the pdf file on my MS Windows client . My cd drive is at /dev/cdrom that is mounted as /mnt/cdrom . To this end , I issued as the following : #cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cdrom myfile But the file cannot be opened on ms MS Windows , nor the cd is usable afterwards . Can you please let me know how can I burn this data cd ? Thank you
There is an easy-to-use GUI program for doing things like this - k3b. As for pdf files, I also have never seen AR in a yum repository, but I've never looked past adobe.com's web site, wehre you can download and install via rpm or in tgz format.
Or you can do it the hard way.
;-)
mhr
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 02:32:52AM -0800, MHR wrote:
There is an easy-to-use GUI program for doing things like this - k3b. As for pdf files, I also have never seen AR in a yum repository, but I've never looked past adobe.com's web site, wehre you can download and install via rpm or in tgz format.
Take a look at:
http://blogs.adobe.com/acroread/2008/02/adobe_reader_now_available_via.html
Version 9.3.1 is showing as available.
John
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 5:32 AM, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 11:38 PM, hadi motamedi motamedi24@gmail.com wrote:
I need to burn data cd on my CentOS and open the pdf file on my MS Windows client . My cd drive is at /dev/cdrom that is mounted as /mnt/cdrom . To this end , I issued as the following : #cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cdrom myfile But the file cannot be opened on ms MS Windows , nor the cd is usable afterwards . Can you please let me know how can I burn this data cd ? Thank you
There is an easy-to-use GUI program for doing things like this - k3b.
<snip>
+1 for K3b
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 5:32 AM, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 11:38 PM, hadi motamedi motamedi24@gmail.com wrote:
I need to burn data cd on my CentOS and open the pdf file on my MS Windows client . My cd drive is at /dev/cdrom that is mounted as /mnt/cdrom . To this end , I issued as the following : #cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cdrom myfile But the file cannot be opened on ms MS Windows , nor the cd is usable afterwards . Can you please let me know how can I burn this data cd ? Thank you
There is an easy-to-use GUI program for doing things like this - k3b.
<snip>
+1 for K3b
k3b++
mark "that's k3b += 1 vote;"
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 5:32 AM, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 11:38 PM, hadi motamedi motamedi24@gmail.com wrote:
I need to burn data cd on my CentOS and open the pdf file on my MS Windows client . My cd drive is at /dev/cdrom that is mounted as /mnt/cdrom . To this end , I issued as the following : #cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cdrom myfile But the file cannot be opened on ms MS Windows , nor the cd is usable afterwards . Can you please let me know how can I burn this data cd ? Thank you
There is an easy-to-use GUI program for doing things like this - k3b.
<snip>
+1 for K3b
k3b++
mark "that's k3b += 1 vote;"
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k3b has always delivered for me - iso to CD or DVD, multi-session data CDs and data DVDs. or k3b++
Hello,
i'm trying to install jboss where it asks me for java 1.5 i have both 1.4 and 1.6 installed with JAVA_HOME pointing to 1.6
i downloaded jdk-1_5_0_17-linux-i586.bin and executed it.. though nothing changed.. when i execute : alternatives --config java
i can only see 1.4 and 1.6
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On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Roland RoLaNd r_o_l_a_n_d@hotmail.com wrote:
Hello,
i'm trying to install jboss where it asks me for java 1.5 i have both 1.4 and 1.6 installed with JAVA_HOME pointing to 1.6
i downloaded jdk-1_5_0_17-linux-i586.bin and executed it.. though nothing changed.. when i execute : alternatives --config java
i can only see 1.4 and 1.6
The java bin from Sun that you ran doesn't set the alternatives framework up. That only gets done via the jpackage rpms or manually jamming the information in.
On 3/15/2010 12:33 PM, Jim Perrin wrote:
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Roland RoLaNdr_o_l_a_n_d@hotmail.com wrote:
Hello,
i'm trying to install jboss where it asks me for java 1.5 i have both 1.4 and 1.6 installed with JAVA_HOME pointing to 1.6
i downloaded jdk-1_5_0_17-linux-i586.bin and executed it.. though nothing changed.. when i execute : alternatives --config java
i can only see 1.4 and 1.6
The java bin from Sun that you ran doesn't set the alternatives framework up. That only gets done via the jpackage rpms or manually jamming the information in.
And the alternatives concept is only suitable for providing a single default. In the more likely case that you need specific JVM versions for specific applications or different ones for testing and production, you have to export JAVA_HOME for it anyway.
At Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:38:40 +0000 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Dear All I need to burn data cd on my CentOS and open the pdf file on my MS Windows client . My cd drive is at /dev/cdrom that is mounted as /mnt/cdrom . To this end , I issued as the following : #cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cdrom myfile But the file cannot be opened on ms MS Windows , nor the cd is usable afterwards . Can you please let me know how can I burn this data cd ? Thank you
Is myfile an ISO9660 file system? That is did you do something like:
mkisofs -o myfile somedirectory
where somedirectory is a *directory* containing:
somefile.pdf
'man mkisofs' for all of the details for making an ISO9660 file system image
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