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Adobe Releases Acrobat Client for Linux
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on Thu Apr 14, 2005 07:00 AM
from the free-pdf dept.
from the free-pdf dept.
DanMan writes "Adobe has released a reader client (Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0) for the linux operating system. No news on open sourcing the client, but they're making a start. You can download the client from their site."
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a start? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:a start? (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:a start? (Score:5, Interesting)
This Acrobat Reader 7 is significant because its the first quality and full featured Linux pdf viewer. It also shows that Adobe aknowledges the existence and importance of Linux and that the demands and complaints made against them about the situation did not go unanswered.
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Re:a start? (Score:4, Informative)
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Re:a start? (Score:5, Informative)
Try mozplugger. It will embed most any X proggy into a Firefox or Mozilla window.
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key mapping! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:key mapping! (Score:3, Informative)
Checked. They've added EcmaScript to the pdf, now it's possible to call websites with that. I think I read right here on
Great (Score:5, Funny)
Solution for the Windows version (Score:3, Interesting)
EWH32.api
Search5.api
Search.api
after I did that and disabled the splash screen Acrobat reader 7 loads up nearly instantaneously on XP. I'm not taking credit for this, I found this tip somewhere I can't quite remember right now and it surely works!
37Mb??!?!?! (Score:5, Informative)
Re:37Mb??!?!?! (Score:4, Informative)
It is much much faster, has thumbnails and can search the pdf.
The only things its missing to catch up with kpdf 3.4 is remembering the site you were, bookmarks, and continous/doublepage -mode.
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Direct link (Score:3, Informative)
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/7x/7.0/
Re:Direct link (Score:3, Informative)
Is there any problem with lumping it in the "Unix" category. I thought Linux != Unix.
I feel sorry for subscribers... (Score:5, Funny)
One step at a time.. (Score:3, Insightful)
I have used Xpdf exclusively for a long time. In what way is Adobe reader superior to Xpdf?
huh? a start towards what? (Score:4, Insightful)
What the hell? So is every commercial company out there just supposed to release everything as open source? Good grief Charlie Brown...why would they do that?
There are plenty of Open Source options for reading pdf's. There's no reason to expect/demand that a commercial software company should open source their products. I mean, come on people...enough is enough.
No Linux Acroreader yet. The next step... (Score:4, Insightful)
Well, actually, in this case, yes. Acrobat Reader is just that: a READER. It's doesn't hurt them to release it. In fact, it would bolster sales of their actual product: Acrobat. But more importantly, it's supposed to be a cross-platform format, and if they want to support that, they need to make an open, cross-platform reader.
Linux is more than just Linux/x86 on one or two distros, and open source is the easiest way to provide products for all of Linux. So they still have a long way to go before they've even done what this article suggests: releasing a Linux version of Reader.
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For the lazy (Score:3, Interesting)
Acrobat Reader 7.0--English for Linux® (.tar.gz), 38.2MB [adobe.com]
Acrobat Reader 7.0--English for Linux® (.rpm), 38MB [adobe.com]
Speedy (Score:5, Funny)
Just a reminder about PDFs (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Just a reminder about PDFs (Score:5, Informative)
For those that can't be bothered to read it, in short, PDF's are designed for printing documents whilst preserving the original formatting as the author intended. Jacob therefore asserts that they're "unfit for human consumption" if you try and use them for something different to their intended purpose, in this case, online reading.
Next week Jacob will be telling us how washing machines are great for keeping your clothes clean but not very good for making cups of tea.
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Re:Just a reminder about PDFs (Score:4, Insightful)
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Open source not needed - open formats rule (Score:5, Insightful)
Spyware, Encumbered? (Score:3, Informative)
Why should they open source it? (Score:3, Insightful)
Thumbs up...no crashes... (Score:3, Insightful)
v.5 did crash quite a bit, esp. the browser plugin. Very frustrating. It was comparitively ugly too.
For Debian users... (Score:5, Informative)
Christian Marillat has made available unofficial Debian packages of Acrobat 7 since a few weeks now. On sarge or sid, add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list:
Then it's as easy as apt-get update; apt-get install acroread mozilla-acroread. This gives you the core functionality and Web browser plugin. (Incidentally, there are a bunch of other useful unofficial debs there, including mplayer and lame.)
You can also install the Javascript plugin and a whole bunch of other Acrobat plugins with apt-get install acroread-plugins. However, be aware that some plugins may report back to the mother ship: LWN article [lwn.net]. Also, they will eat another 43 MB of disk space.
WARNING! Document tracking included (Score:5, Informative)
The software contains functionality that could cause serious privacy concerns - it is possible to include a tracking mechanism in PDF's, readers that this great 'feature' will then contact some website and keep track of how many people read that document.
Re:WARNING! Document tracking included (Score:3, Funny)
Re:WARNING! Document tracking included (Score:5, Informative)
(a) disable javascript in the preferences (which leads to annoying popup requesting that you turn it back on *every* time you close).
Which leads to further suggestions to:
(b) Go to $HOME/.adobe/Acrobat/7.0/JavaScripts and remove "glob.settings.js". Create a symbolic link with that name to "/dev/null". That should stop the dialog box.
Or
(c) block the main site that it seems to talk to: www.remoteapproach.com
My solution was to:
(d) turn on the proxy settings preferences and point it to somewhere that won't resolve.
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Re:WARNING! Document tracking included (Score:5, Informative)
iptables -A OUTPUT -m owner --cmd-owner acroread -j DROP
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Why do they have to Open Source? (Score:3, Insightful)
So if Adobe released Photoshop for Linux should they OpenSource it? Are Oracle "only making a start" by supporting Linux because they don't Open Source their database ?
Wake up people. This is good news that people consider Linux a platform worth supporting. This isn't the "start" this is the game.
WARNING! "Unexpected features" (Score:3, Informative)
READ this before installing it: http://lwn.net/Articles/129729/ [lwn.net]
Remote Approach's reporting did not work when we viewed the document with Kpdf, Xpdf and Adobe Reader 5.0.10. It also failed using Apple's "Preview" application on Mac OS X. The document was still viewable with no apparent glitch in other PDF readers, but the reporting function did not work. However, when we opened the file using Adobe Acrobat Reader 7, Remote Approach started logging views from our IP address. After doing a little research, we found that Adobe's Reader was connecting to http://www.remoteapproach.com/remoteapproach/loggi ng.asp each time we opened the document
(Easy fix: Assign a IP which doesn't work ie: 0.0.0.1 to www.remoteapproach.com in your /etc/hosts)
I prefer xpdf (Score:3, Insightful)
GTK except the printing is still crap (Score:3, Informative)
Also, (minor), the background color of the button bar doesn't adhere to the theme your desktop is set to. It's a darkish grey, not the lightgrey that's default on RedHat or Debian.
an unaccepted gesture (Score:5, Insightful)
don't moan that companies aren't trying to provide for linux users, if when they do release a product, you write bad reviews of it and criticise their attempts to get closer to a userbase they know little about, and can even fear.
Security (Score:4, Interesting)
How to get rid of the toolbar banner advertisement (Score:4, Informative)
Drag any toolbar button on the line with the flashy advertisement down about half its height. This will make a new bar with only that button on it.
Next, drag the rest of the buttons down to the new bar.
Once the last button is moved to the new bar, the old one (and the flashy ad with it!) will disappear and your new ad-less toolbar will move up to replace it.
Locking the toolbars here will prevent it from returning the next time you start the app.
Re:DUPE!!! (Score:3, Informative)
It was already released then...
Still, they didn't mention the download location then, so I suppose it counts as the second half of the article with a generous portion of laziness in between.
Re:DUPE!!! (Score:3, Funny)
It's been almost a whole three weeks since that earth-shattering story... I'm sure most
Besides, as one TV network exec once said, defending reruns, something to the effect of "If you didn't see it first time, it's new to you!!"
Re:DUPE!!! (Score:5, Insightful)
Now if only Adobe would bring Photoshop over as well...
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Re:DUPE!!! (Score:5, Insightful)
Well lets start with Acrobat writter, first. Porting Reader 7 is not a glowing support for Linux it is just a way to make sure PDFs stay in common usage. With Acrobat Reader 5 Getting very out of date and not as compatible as it was before. They need to give an update to the "Little OSs". It is just a way for them to go Yea almost any modern computer can read PDFs v7 and incorage companies to upgrade to Writer 7. This is not Adobee going HEY WE LOVE LINUX! it is more Ug I guess we need to throw Linux a bone here just so we can sell new versions of the writter.
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Re:DUPE!!! (Score:5, Interesting)
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Re:I... (Score:3, Informative)
emerge -C for you acrobat.
Re:It seems to me... (Score:4, Informative)
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Re:It seems to me... (Score:5, Insightful)
I know that most slashdotters live in their own la-la land where everything is ascii and png but for real people in the real world who want to do work on a Linux workstation, Adobe's reader is a brilliant solution to a real problem.
Also, might I remind you that postscript is an Adobe technology.
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Re:It seems to me... (Score:5, Insightful)
Closed programs, open formats is, to my mind, a reasonable compromise for a commercial organisation.
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Re:Open source Acrobat? (Score:5, Insightful)
The full PDF specification is available for free download from Adobe's web site. It's in PDF format, so in the worst case you would need to use their (free beer. Mmm. Free beer...) software to print it, but there is nothing stopping you from writing your own software to create or display PDFs. By doing this, they have helped make PDF a common standard, and associated the name Adobe with PDF. I work with PDFs a lot - I read and review material in PDF format, create PDF documents from LaTeX including images and diagrams saved as PDFs, and I don't use a single Adobe product.
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Re:old (Score:3, Funny)
You wear wraparound sunglasses, even indoors. You wish your mother would let you ride a motorbike. You tell your friends you're pulling in $50,000 a year and $2,000 a month "playing the stock market" but in reality you're only bringing in half that and your dividends from MSFT havn't been good in years. Your non computing friends all turn to you for help; you only charge $30 an hour. Your collegues talk about you behind your back. Your workplace nickname is likely to
Re:Ive used for some time (Score:5, Informative)
For the record, your post is basically a complete rip of this post [slashdot.org] by El Cubano [slashdot.org] with a couple of lines stacked in front of it. Moderators, please act accordingly.
I do not think behavior such as yours should be encouraged. Actually, I hope you'll reincarnate into some exotic frog, SCO techie, or worse.
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