From: huber@mppmu.mpg.de
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 8:19 AM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: RE: Java PDF viewer... how?

In Article <009E3F03.69A99583@SendSpamHere.ORG>
system@SendSpamHere.ORG (Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-) writes:

>Now I have a ACROBAT.JAR file in SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSMGR.ADOBEACROBATVIEWER].
>
>How do I make this run?
>Of course, in their infinite wisdom, the help files for the PDF viewer are
>in PDF...  Doh!
>--
>VAXman- OpenVMS APE certification number: AAA-0001           VAXman@TMESIS.COM

Well, another reason to get XPDF first, then read the acrobat docu :-)

But the docu would not tell You much, because for U*x systems, it just tells
You to start the acroread application, which is a shell script.
Inside the script, there is the explicit java invocation:

$  if f$type(java).eqs."" then @sys$manager:java$setup/output=NL:
$  define/nolog java$classpath sys$common:[java.lib]acrobat.jar,-
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
sys$common:[java.lib]JDK118_CLASSES.ZIP

$  java -mx32m "com.adobe.acrobat.Viewer" 'p1'
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

replace sys$common:[java.lib] with Your actual location of the acrobat.jar
file.