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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?"

3 of 454 comments (clear)

  1. 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..

  2. 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!

  3. 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