Adobe Reader: strange Preferences menu

[murphycc]

I saw a previous thread where somebody did not have ttf-mscorefonts-installer installed on their system, but I already have that installed.

I'm on Kubuntu 12.04, KDE 4.8.5, and I installed Adobe Reader from the repositories which is version 9.4.7.

I can view PDFs just fine with it, and pull-down menu fonts look good until I open the preferences menu. Then the font and spacings look like the attachment I have included. I have used various Kubuntu versions for a while now and have never seen this after an Adobe Reader install.

Does it matter which order I installed the ttf-mscorefonts-installer? Like I said, that was already installed.

Any other ideas?

Thanks,
Chris

[SteveRiley]

Have you changed the size of your fonts in System Settings | Application Appearance | Fonts?

[dmeyer]

Also, have you tried resizing the window? Sometimes when I have something like that It jumps right when I make the window really big,

P.S. Not a fan of Okular?

[murphycc]

Thanks for the ideas, guys.

I changed my proportional fonts (in KDE settings) from Liberation Sans to Arial, with no effect upon restarting Reader. I changed my monospace font (Monospace) to Courier New and that made no difference either.

The preferences menu in Reader cannot be resized, so I cannot 'snap' the fonts into place on it.

I do use Okular for about 95% of my documents, as it's very quick.

I installed Reader to actually see if I could re-save a pdf in a different format, which now is beside the point because I noticed this problem after installing it. Reallly strange. I even just now switched KDE desktop themes and that didn't make any difference.

I used to only use Reader a couple of years ago and never had this problem.

I did re-install Reader last night through Synaptic, but that didn't make a difference either.

[dmeyer]

Does changing the DPI do anything? Try logging out and in just to make sure its applied.

Does changing your GTK theme do anything for you? Again log out and in to make sure. Remember its a GTK application so changing the QT theme etc affects it in a roundabout way usually via oxygen-gtk and not directly.

[murphycc]

hey, I got it working! Thanks.

When you mentioned GTK+, I had forgotten there is a GTK+ Appearance section of settings under System Settings. I have never modified that section before. But I changed the 'Widget Style' from oxygen-gtk to Clearlooks and now the Adobe Reader preferences menu is displaying correctly. I tried another style too, and that one worked. It seems to be something about the oxygen-gtk one that Reader doesn't like.

Thanks again...

[dmeyer]

What happens when you change it back? Go crazy again? I'm using oxygen-gtk and I have none of the issues you have.

Anyways, glad I could help. Don't forget to mark the thread SOLVED using the thread tools.

[murphycc]

Yes, when I changed it back to oxygen-gtk it switches back to messed up. The other GTK+ themes I have available in the pulldown menu all have 'official' names... 'oxygen-gtk' sounds more like an unofficial name. There must be something different or unconventional about it.

[dmeyer]

oxygen-gtk is the official name. Its some kind of adaptor that translates the oxygen widget style to something gtk can understand.

[weha]

I have downloaded the reader from the adobe site as it is no longer supported in the canonical repo.
Kubuntu 12.10 (64 bit)
Adobe Reader 9.5.3
Same Preference Menu story as the OP, otherwise no problems.
(Changing widget type = no difference).

[murphycc]

Do you have the 'Canonical Partners' repository enabled under Other Software (in Synaptic, for example)? That is where you will then find Acroread 9.4.7

[weha]

I think you are using Kubuntu 12.04. The canonical partner repo. in 12.10 no longer has acroread, neither does medibuntu.
I am not going to try an older version due to missing security patches.

[weha]

I think you are using Kubuntu 12.04. The canonical partner repo. in 12.10 no longer has acroread, neither does medibuntu.
I am not going to try an older version due to missing security patches.

It is in the canonical repo now. Latest version 9.5.4 which fixes prior versions vulnerabilities. (The preferences menu is still 'strange' as per OP's grouse).