adobe-isv

Translations missing in Adobe Reader

Bug #359981 reported by Johannes Rohr on 2009-04-12

This bug affects 6 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Ubuntu Translations	Won't Fix	Undecided	Unassigned
	adobe-isv	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: acroread

unlike acroread 8.x packaged by medibuntu, the acroread 9.x package in the partners repository does not provide the localisation files and is English only.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: acroread 9.1.0-7jaunty1 [modified: opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/GlobalPrefs/.config]
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: acroread
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

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Johannes Rohr (jorohr) wrote on 2009-04-12:

Dependencies.txt Edit (2.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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mavosaure (mavosaure) wrote on 2009-11-27:

Same problem with the 9.2 release on Karmic, as reported in the Bug #489306 (duplicate from this one)

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Dany Weissenberg (turlututuchapeaupointu) wrote on 2010-10-24:

With the last 9.4 version of acroread, that the same : always in english if we install from depots.We can't chosse "Edit > Preferences > International > Application Language > Choose at application startup in another language....

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mavosaure (mavosaure) wrote on 2010-11-26:

I don't understand why, but acroread is now available in English and in German. So it's possible to localize it, didn't it?

Today, on the Adobe web site, it's available :
for 8.1.7
both Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Italian and Japanese

8.1.7 and 9.4 :
English (UK & US), French, German, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish.

So why isn't it possible to get it in these languages?

Changed in acroread (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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David Planella (dpm) wrote on 2012-10-18:

Marking it as won't fix, as we don't have control over what translations Adobe ships.

Changed in ubuntu-translations:
status:	New → Won't Fix
summary:	- localisation missing + Translations missing in Adobe Reader

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Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco) wrote on 2013-03-01:

Hi, a new acroread release (0.9.4) is available for update, could you give it a try and tell us if the problem persists?
If you still have this bug please set back the status to "new"
thanks

Changed in acroread (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Incomplete

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Johannes Rohr (jorohr) wrote on 2013-03-01:

I think Adobe has dropped the translations a while back , so there is not much one can do about this. Generally, they seem to be abandoning Linux. Adobe Air for Linux was discontinued, Flash for Linux no longer being developed, Adobe Reader X was never released for Linux, no 64bit version of the reader... I

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mavosaure (mavosaure) wrote on 2013-03-01:

Adobe Reader is now available for Precise in the Partner repository in German, French and Nippon through dedicated packages:
adobereader-deu
adobereader-fra
adobereader-jpn

But there are only theses languages which are available.

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mavosaure (mavosaure) wrote on 2013-03-21:

Some bad news :
these 3 packages (adobereader-[deu/fra/jpn] or acroread-[deu/fra/jpn]) became "transitional packages"... In other words, they have been emptied.
http://archive.canonical.com/dists/precise/partner/binary-i386/Packages.gz
http://archive.canonical.com/dists/quantal/partner/binary-i386/Packages.gz

Using the main binary from the partner repos, you can access, in prefernces, to a language selection dialog... but the selection list is empty (except English)

Some translations are always online on the official site, even with the disinterest of Adobe for Linux : http://get.adobe.com/fr/reader/otherversions/
Chinese (simplified/traditional), Danish, Dutch, English (US/UK), Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish.