successfully installed Adobe Reader 1.0 on my MobilePro

I successfully installed the Adobe Reader 1.0 you all provide on this site. I did this on my NEC MobilePro 790, using the MIPs version, installed to the storage card, and it works wonderfully.

Thank you for providing this.

I read your pages on the potential problems with conflicting files due to replaced system files. But when I installed, it did not replace any system files and so far there have been no conflicts. The Adobe Reader works well and I can get a full page view instead of having to scroll around as I did with Ansyr Primer.

Strange - How were you not able to get a full screen view with Primer??

I vaguely remember having to scroll sideways with the edition of Primer which I had which is the one that came with the MobilePro. With the Adobe, I don't have to scroll sideways to read.

The 1.0 was re-released later last year with fixes for the system file glitches. It does cover that in the CESD.

For the record......just like in Pocket Acrobat 1.0, you can adjust the page size in Primer to fit the width of your screen so that you won't have to scroll across the page.

Anyway - Glad you are enjoying Pocket Acrobat 1.0.

Yesterday I have installed Acrobat Reader 1.0 on my MobilePro 790 using the .cab installer provided on this site for MIPS (file: arceMIPSr-a.HPC_4000.cab).
I have installed it on a CF card, of course.

However Acrobat Reader didn't work in my system, until I hexedited the .cab installer, substituting the 3 references to 'mfcce300.dll' with 'mfcce301.dll' (which, by the way, is provided in the installer itself).

Maybe this is obvious, maybe it is a bug of the installer, I don't know, I only hope it helps someone.

Apart from this: many thanks for providing AR for HPC. It is still a very nice piece of software, and quite fast too, at least considering the limitations of the platform.
At first sight, it seems better than Primer.

this is not a bug, it is intentional as hpcfactor could not afford officially releasing a hexedited software. i can understand this situation but often causes problems. i think the readme could include a warning on this (does it? i didn't read it if there's one... )
so, the hexedited version is on my site, has been there for a while both for hpc2000 and for cenet. but i forgot to post the link to the MIPS version there. will do it soon the file is there though, http://csakugy2.atw.hu/acroreader10MIPS.zip


edit: oh wait you mean the installer installed mfcce301 and not 300? lol that is certainly a bug then! mention it to C:Amie please.

Edited by cmonex 2006-04-25 9:16 AM

ok, my site is UPDATED! acrobat reader 1.0 for mips etc etc

I understand that hpcfactor doesn't what to host hexedited software (even if I do not understand why this should be considered illegal) but maybe it could have a link to an external site.
Anyway, there is no readme.



Yes! And also aygshell.dll and Doclist.dll (but I do not know whether this is right or is a bug).



How? PM?

yeah, PM... or email

aygshell and doclist are required to run acrobat reader.

yeah they could provide a link to MY site!

Yes, now I know. But are they included in the original distribution of Acrobat Reader or have been added later to make it compatible with HPCs?



Commercials everywhere...

they were added later, they are the "dummy" dll's to hack pocketpc apps.

Ok. In this case I don't understand why it is considered legal to add files to a package (a .cab installer) and not legal to change some text strings in a binary file.

I would understand if one had crack the binary code, for example for breaking a protection, but changing some strings cannot be considered a crack, rather an inoffensive hack.

I'm rather confused