Hi,

Thank you for your excellent guide!

I’ve my Win32 Firefox 1.5 running on wine 0.9.51 in order to access our company’s Oracle Form Server via JRE1.5.0.11 (via wine also) , but the only problem was that I can’t find any working Win32 PDF viewer to use under WINE’s fake Windows, until I read your blog today.

I also like Foxit Reader very much after I’ve evaluated in my wine applications, and now I also want to use it for my Linux Desktop to replace the slow acroread, crippled evince, and ugly xpdf etc….

But I can’t get it work according to your above mentioned script.

My foxit reader is locating under ~/.ies4linux/ie6/drive_c/Foxit/Foxit-Reader.exe

I tried to add WINEPREFIX=/home/xxx/.ies4linux/ie6 in front of the line, but it’s not working…

Please let me know as to how I should modify your script in order to get it work?

Thanks!
Bryan

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

I’ve re-modified it again accordingly, but I got the following error:

foxit.sh: 4: Syntax error: Bad substitution

Any ideas?

Can you please put your script file somewhere for download?

Thanks!
Bryan

There is alrady a native Linux version of Foxit Reader. Check out the official site..

Hi, I’m trying out Ubuntu 8.04 and running Wine 1.0 (yes I’m a linux noob)
I got Foxit 2.3 to install and if I double click on the icon on my Desktop it opens, so far so good.
I tried copying your script but when I try to Add Application I get the following:
Could not find application
Could not find ‘/home/xxx/foxit.sh’

Well, that’s where I saved the script, so am now stuck.
Any help much appreciated.
Thanks,
Jon.

OK don’t worry about it, its all working now
Thanks for the script, Jon.

I’ve noticed that this script has difficulty opening filenames with several spaces. I suggest modifying line four as follows:

Filename=’”z:”${1////\}’
#Added graves before and after the filename

This should be a bit more “robust” with filenames. Hope this helps. ^,^

Fixed the problem by making the script executable.

But now when I open a pdf it only opens foxit, and does not open the pdf in foxit. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks very much. It is working wonderfully now.

Hi,

I have the problem that Jon seemed to have but that he apparently solved… any help would be very useful

i created the SH script but whenever I do ‘Open with’ and go find the script where I put it, whenever I try to hit OK I get an error message saying “could not find application”…

what should I do?

thanks

JB

I meant

App=’eval wine “/media/OS/Program Files/Foxit Software/Foxit Reader/Foxit Reader.exe” “‘$Filename’”‘

Hi green,

Have you tried download foxit.sh, modify “C:Program FilesFoxit SoftwareFoxit ReaderFoxit Reader.exe” into “/media/OS/Program Files/Foxit Software/Foxit Reader/Foxit Reader.exe”

then run it. What is the error message? does Foxit Reader launched?

Wow, thanks! I was just searching for generic tips on converting to wine filenames so I could do exactly this with Foxit. Things just got way easier!

Hello Hardono,
I am very thankful to you for this guide.For other newbies here coz I am also one I will just put the order of things I did and what problems I faced.Also sabestian’s suggestion was very helpful.
1.completed the installation of wine and then foxit in wine
a.As a result I got a foxit icon on my ubuntu desktop .Installation
went to the following directory-”/home/varun/.wine/Program File
s/Foxit Reader/Foxit Reader.exe”
2.Then I tried saving the script given in multicolor above in a text editor and saved it as Foxit.sh
3.Tried opening a pdf by right clicking on it and selecting permissions–>add–>,browed to foxit.sh and clicked okay but got the error message that file was not found.
4.Used sabastian’s tip and changed the file type to exe,and tried the step 3 above again.,but no good.
5.There is another file on this page just after the disclaimer(top of the page and not very visible and so u need to see.)which says “download Foxit.sh”.I downloaded that and put overwrote it on the earlier file I had from the earlier step.
6.I did step 3 again [but I guess there is no need].
and voila!!!!!success.
So thanks everyone and hope this step by step thing helps someone.
The only thing I have not tested till now is shutting down the computer and seeing if on restarting the same arrangement works for me or not.

hi Varun,

If you try to execute the instruction through command line, what is the error message shown?

Another trick would be to use the builtin WINE function called winepath :

#!/bin/sh
# Purpose: To convert Linux-style filename to Windows-style to pass as an argument
# to wine when starting Foxit Reader
# We use Wine's winepath function to convert our unix path to a windows path name
# where $@ access the selected file(s) path names
filename="$(winepath -w "$@")"
# assuming you use the default installation folder for Foxit in Wine
wine "C:Program FilesFoxit SoftwareFoxit ReaderFoxit Reader.exe" "$filename"

Watch for the double quotes as they are badly copied from this blog (at least in my case, in gedit)

God bless you Maxim!

The first code didn’t worked for me (using Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala) but the one you posted on 2009.06.21 20:56 with “winepatch” worked right away (I used the “view source” option on the little window). I just can’t do without foxit reader functions of: highlight, note and “replace document colors”. I use black background with red text. The linux version of Foxit haven’t got those yet.

Hi! I don’t know for other Ubuntu releases but I have 10.04 LTS and what you are trying to do is done easily like this:
Right-click with your mouse on a .PDF file and choose “Properties”, go to the “Open With” tab and there you should see a list of programs used for opening .PDF files, in which “FoxitReader” should be. (If it isn’t then click Add and from the list of programs that opens select “FoxitReader” and click again Add. Now FoxitReader should be in the initial list.)
Now just click on the radiobutton on the left of FoxitReader and then click Close.
Your .PDF files should be associated with Foxit Reader.
Try to click different .PDF files and you should see them open with Foxit Reader.