If am interested in the installation of Source-Sans-Pro adobe font which can be procured from this location: https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-sans-pro According to the documentation given on the page, this requires the makeotf CLI, for installing the fonts from source. According to the Adobe website, https://www.adobe.com/devnet/opentype/afdko.html, makeotf is part of AFDKO toolkit, which can be installed using pip … Read more
I can’t install Adobe Flash player. I tried terminal, Ubuntu Software Centre, and Synaptic Package Manager, but I got error message: flashplugin-installer: Depends: libnss3-1d but it is not going to be installed Depends: libnspr4-0d but it is not going to be installed I tried apt-get update, but it’s not working. I also tried installing libnss3-1d … Read more
I can view the preferences but the selection boxes are all locked, as well as the Cancel and OK buttons. The only option is to close it. Have tried uninstall/re-install acroread but situation persists. Is there some system settings that I need to change to unlock preferences? Answer It seems it can be done, if … Read more
My Adobe Flash plugin has stopped working on Ubuntu 12.04. I cannot see any videos. When I try to install it again, the following things appear on my terminal: root@ubuntu:/home/salty# sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done Package adobe-flashplugin is not available, but is referred to by … Read more
I want to install adobe acrobat reader plugin in ubuntu 12.10. I tried enabling medibuntu and searched for mozilla-acroread and acroread-plugins, but the search yielded no results. I have adobe acrobat reader installed using the debian package. One more method I tried is to open Adobe Acrobat Reader Edit -> Preferences -> Internet and then … Read more
Adobe Flash cookies (files with .sol extension) used to be located in ~/.macromedia. This folder no longer exists in Ubuntu 14.04LTS and newer. If the method of installing Flash has any effect on the location, the Ubuntu Installer option is how I installed it. So where are the Flash Cookies now located? I’ve tried searching … Read more
There are several journal websites (typically Taylor and Francis) that require that all PDF files submitted to it for reviewing should be Adobe PDFs. The submission engine will not accept a PDF generated by LaTeX or OpenOffice. To do this conversion, one has to actually boot into Windows, open the PDF file with Adobe Acrobat … Read more
Firefox shows that I’ve got Gnash installed, but in Synaptic I have the most recent Adobe Flashplayer. I’ve been having trouble with Flash content not working, and I’d like to try switching to the Adobe player. I can’t figure out how to do that, though. Answer First make sure you have the flashplugin-installer package installed. … Read more
What are the latest news with Adobe AIR? Is someone planing to develop a support for AIR. My business is using Adobe AIR for digital signage software on PC. I prefer Linux but without support or any other solution for AIR it means I need to buy Windows licenses. 🙁 Answer Adobe dropped Linux support … Read more
I’ve been having problems with updating Adobe Flash Player. I downloaded the tar.gz but to be honest I’m completely lost from there. Answer You should just install the latest version from the Ubuntu repositories. It is a lot easier and normally they keep this one up-to-date with new Linux Flash releases. To install it run … Read more
