10.4: Fix for Adobe Reader for Palm not launching

Feb 05, '07 07:30:04AM

Contributed by: luomat

I recently downloaded the Adobe Reader for Palm OS (for Mac) to my MacBook running 10.4.8.

As soon as I launched the app, it closed again, and the console.log (/Applications » Utilities » Console.app) gave this error (line breaks added):

2007-02-02 21:10:18.327 Finder[375] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8.
The file name for this data could be:
Contents/Info.plist -- file://localhost/Applications/Adobe%20Reader%20for%20Palm%20OS.app/
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
I opened the Applications folder in Finder, then selected the Adobe Reader for Palm OS app, control-clicked and chose Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu. From there, I went to the Contents folder and opened the Info.plist file in Property List Editor (the default app for .plist files, if you have the Developer Tools installed).

All I did was save the file to its original name, closed the various windows until I was back at the Applications folder in Finder, and opened the app. Presto-Whammo, it launched (albeit in Rosetta). I have marked this a 10.4 hint, because I believe there was a change with the way plists are handled, but I could be wrong -- the app hasn't been updated since 29 August 2003, so a lot has changed!

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