Adobe Acrobat 6 Forum

The only reason I need to use Acrobat Professional is to highlight and comment the papers I read in PDF format and I would like to save these comments in the file.

I have both office 2003 and Acrobat 6.0 professional installed in CrossOver 6.2 winXP bottle. Start Cross over application install and run your acrobat installation 'setup' file. The installation should go smoothly.

In order to get Acrobat 6.0 work, you should copy your riched20.dll library from your windows XP system into your

/home/Your_home_folder/.cxoffice/YourXP_bottle/drive_c/windows/system32

Please note that riched20.dll file is already installed in /system32. But remember it is a 'dummy' file. The original riched20.dll size should be about 423 KB. In CrossOver control panel, Go to 'Applications' and add 'Acrobat.exe' to the list and set it to work under 'Windows XP' version. Then you go to 'Libraries' and from the drop down override menu, select riched20 and set it to 'native'. Accept the changes by pressing OK and close your CrossOver control panel. Now enjoy using Acrobat 6.0 Professional. I have also posted the screen shot of my desktop. As you can see in my screenshot, commenting and highlighting works very well. However, 'Save As' function crashes. This installation should also work for win2000 bottle.

I installed to a new windows 2000 bottle, the adobe setup demanded Internet Explorer 5 or newer, which I installed (v6.01).

If you make the mistake of checking the box in the adobe splash window which says "don't autoplay this cd" the next time you run crossover installation wizard you need to use the setup located in '/media/cdrom/Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Standard/' or similar else it jumps straight to "finishing... simulating reboot".

After this Adobe setup ran without complaint, but stalled at "validating install" stage. After 15 minutes of this I ran gnome-system-monitor, which reported msiexec.exe consistently using >50% of cpu & 37mb memory, with winserver using ~30% cpu & 3.6mb. I lacked the patience to see if it would actually finish so killed it.

Tried again in a winxp bottle with same results.
Tried again in a win98 bottle with ms office 2000 & ie6 installed, this time install went much farther, spitting out an error about not being able to create a pdf port monitor 3 times, and then finished successfully. I had to reboot to get Adobe to show up in the Windows Applications menu. Acrobat Distiller runs but Acrobat itself does not, there is no error. I followed the instructions above re: riched .dll to no avail.