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Adobe Reader 7.0 Coming to Linux
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?"
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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The author of the article is on crack, calling aix and solaris "niche" operating system.
I don't give a fuck about this proprietary bullshit from the monster software hoarders adobe.
You should switch to MS Word. That's the industry standard and nearly everybody uses it, so you won't have to bother with obscure-ish file formats.
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KPDF and KGhostview cover anything I need to do.
What I would really like is a full PDF creator/editor.... That would impress me..
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...
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!
Fear Uncertainty Doubt.
"If you use xpdf, you may lose money and not go on vacation to spain. Instead you may end up in a jail in turkey where you will be sodomised by sadistic jailors".
Gimme a break.
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.
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.
/. 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.
After seeing the yesterday Reader discussion on
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.
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