[Tex/LaTex] acroTeX and TeXLive 2010

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It sounds great to be able to use LaTeX for such greetings but however I have been unsuccessful with TexLive 2010. I performed the installation of acroTeX from CTAN i.e. LateXing acrotex.ins and put all the files in a folder under TeXLive 2010 and update the database with the TeXLive Manager but pdfLaTeX still complains: insdljs.sty not found though insdljs.sty exists. What is wrong?

Thanks a lot…

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mpg answered in the comments:

You should place it [the template] somewhere under C:\texlive\2010\texmf-local\tex, preferably in a latex\acrotex subdiretory. Then update the database again and it should work.

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