Adobe Releases Acrobat Client for Linux 478
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."
Photoshop (Score:1, Interesting)
Does it support the DRM schemes ? (Score:1, Interesting)
Ludovic
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Blog [hirlimann.net]
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.
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]
Just a reminder about PDFs (Score:5, Interesting)
OT: MDI (Score:2, Interesting)
I really got screwed by MDI yesterday (with a little of my own carelessness thrown in). I use Windows and MS Office as rarely as possible, but I had to put together a PowerPoint presentation for a talk. I had two open PowerPoint files, and each seemed to be in its own instance of the program - separate windows, separate taskbar tabs. When I closed the one I didn't need, the other one closed as well, taking about an hour's worth of work down with it. Granted, it asked me if I wanted to save my work, but I didn't read the dialog closely enough, because I assumed it referred to the document in the window I was closing.
Try this if you are at a Windows/Office box:
1. open foo.ppt
2. open bar.ppt
3. close the foo.ppt window with the X in the upper right hand corner of the window.
4. poof! both windows disappear.
This is really bizarre behavior. If you do the above, it looks like there are two instances of PowerPoint, each running in its own window, rather than one instance managing two windows, as is the case. And even if one realizes that it is only one instance of the app, closing a window should not exit the app if there are other windows open.
A quick check of apps on my work (Windows) and home (Debian) box revealed only Excel to behave this way. Even MS Word and IE don't do that.
Evince (Score:1, Interesting)
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!
Re:Great (Score:2, Interesting)
Security (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:DUPE!!! (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:a start? (Score:3, Interesting)
However I haven't found a kpdf firefox plugin so I'm using acrobat reader.
Re:key mapping! (Score:3, Interesting)
This is actually a very useable PDF viewer. I've never been fully comfortable in Acroread 5, XPDF or GSview, and I don't like the pile of dependencies on GPDF and KPDF.
For me, Acroread 7 is the way to go. It'd be nice if it was open, but sometimes we just don't have that luxury...
Re:a start? (Score:3, Interesting)
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/files/PHB_v35_c
with the labels for the 6 major stats intact.
Can someone who has already downloaded it try this for me?
In every linux PDF viewer I've used it displays on the screen, but when you print it the STR, DEX, CON, INT, WIS, and CHA labels are blacked out.
Re:Speedy (Score:2, Interesting)
Thank you, Adobe.
Re:DUPE!!! (Score:2, Interesting)
What, and give the Gimp developers the ability to easily run the two side-by-side on their platform of choice, directly compare them, and so forth? I'm not sure the Photoshop team really wants that level of competition. Gimp is already fairly impressive in terms of functionality, but the Gimp developers as a rule don't have Photoshop to compare to, so the interfaces are quite different. (This can be construed as a good thing... certainly it's good for allowing the respective applications to retain their existing user bases, which is much to Adobe's advantage.)
It may be that the Gimp developers would not spend the cash on Photoshop even if they *could* run it on *nix, and so it could be that little or nothing would change. But I can quite readily imagine Adobe's not wanting to chance it.
Re:Solution for the Windows version (Score:3, Interesting)
Our survey said... (Score:1, Interesting)
When copyright expires in 100 years time (it will get there, don't worry...), the binary will not be executable. However, the algorithms in the code may still be useful (even if it is "this is the way they did it in the old days...").
Make binaries protected by copyright ONLY when the source for it is made available too. There is no need to license the code, just show it. The code is still protected by copyright, so you can't make a clone any more than you can make a clone of the binary.
Otherwise we are "buying" nothing with the copyrights we give the author. We are getting bits that will do nothing.
Re:Just a reminder about PDFs (Score:2, Interesting)
The fact is, lot of stuff that is currently published in pdf probably should not be in pdf. But quoting users complaints is pretty lame, because if you switch a particular content from pdf to html, people are going to fuss that it doesn't display right with their browser, or it does not have pretty formating etc.
You can do great things with pdf, even for on-screen delivery. Look for example at this calculator [pragma-ade.com],
or at some presentation created with beamer or PPower4.
Re:Solution for the Windows version (Score:3, Interesting)
On my Gentoo box, that's in "/opt/Acrobat7/Reader/intellinux/plug_ins", and it's only two files:
ewh.api
SearchFind.api
Great tip, starts much faster now.. I'm guessing AcroForm.api is needed for forms, but haven't checked. Seems to work fine for the few pdf's I tried it on though.