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Adobe Reader 7.0 Coming to Linux

Posted by Hemos on from the get-er-done dept.

Sometimes_Rational writes "There is now one less thing for Windows and Mac users to point to when claiming desktop usability superiority. While not officially listed in Adobe's download page, you can get Adobe Reader 7.0 for Linux from the company's FTP server according to this article at The Inquirer , which also has a review. The upshot is that Reader 7.0 for Linux is as bloated as its Windows and Mac siblings, but it loads much faster and is more useable than version 5. I imagine that this will get loads of comments about how Reader for Linux headed downhill after version 4. Or was it 3?"

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  1. I doubt this will make a big diffrence by I+kan+Spl · · Score: 0, Troll

    Unless they release the source code under some OSS friendly license I doubt this will make a big diffrence. We already have real player for linux, but from what I see at my univ, most people are using mplayer or kaffeine.

    If they release it under BSD or GPL, then I'm interested.

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  2. Sorry, no banana by pair-a-noyd · · Score: 1, Troll

    KPDF and KGhostview cover anything I need to do.
    What I would really like is a full PDF creator/editor.... That would impress me..

  3. Dog Vommit by RockClimbingFool · · Score: 0, Troll

    xpdf renders text like dog vommit. Hell, even acroread renders stuff like dog vommit. I create lots of pdf's of plots, data, etc. and they look like crap unless I open them on the Windows side with Acrobat. sad but true...

  4. Splash screens by SlashDotAgent · · Score: 1, Troll

    From expirience of both using and developing application - if it NEEDS a splash screen or a "loading..." progress bar, IT ALREADY MEANS it's too damn slow!

  5. Re:Recruiters insisting on Word documents. by Q+Who · · Score: 0, Troll

    Now, if I were looking for a job, and the recruiter/employer insisted on having a Word document, I generally would regard him as quite narrow-minded and incompetent, and probably not worth the best of my time.

    That's plain stupid, a secretary usually prints out the resume - so what, if she can't handle PDF, you'll refuse to send a .doc?

    Good for the other applicants, I guess.

  6. Re:Bloated?!?! WTF! by serbanp · · Score: 1, Troll

    You're on drugs or maybe the OSX version is special. When talking about bloat in the Acrobat Reader context, one typically complains about the painfully long time it takes to start up or to manipulate pdfs with large bitmaps.

    After seeing the yesterday Reader discussion on /. I downloaded the version 5 and uninstalled the 6.? I had. Version 5 starts almost an order of magnitude faster and seems snappier on my Windows PC at work than the bloody version 6.

    Before, I actually avoided opening up pdf files because it took so long to start up. To cope with this issue, I had to keep the Reader always running.

    Now it's much much better. I strongly advise everyone to downgrade to Revision 5, unless there is something special, can't-live-without feature in the latest adove crap.

    Serban