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Adobe Releases Acrobat Client for Linux

Posted by samzenpus on 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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  1. awesome! by alatesystems · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That's almost as cool as the day you could already get it from Adobe's FTP.

  2. is this news? by gustgr · · Score: 1, Redundant

    adobe acrobat reader has been out there for a while (at least for 5 or 6 years).

  3. key maapping by xixax · · Score: 0, Redundant
    I hope they actually bother paying attention to my mouse preferences. Version 5 ignores my scroll wheel and it uses clunky Motif widgets (bleagh).

    More likely they'll only use the opportunity include some of the more unpleasant misfeatures like spying.

    Xix.
    (damn mouse button!)

    --
    "Everything is adjustable, provided you have the right tools"
  4. Printing sux by vandan · · Score: 0, Redundant

    They're idea of a printing interface is 'lpr'.
    gpdf is faster and has a *much* better ( gnome ) printing interface.

  5. mod (-5, DUPE) by essreenim · · Score: 0, Redundant
    This is sooo old news. And acrobat reader has been available for Linux for centuries...

    In other fresh and hot news:

    ****THE POPe HAS DIES*****

  6. It's been out on debian-marillat for a while by jdfox · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Christian Marillat has been offering this for several weeks now, in his Debian repository.

    I just upgraded to Acroread 7.03 from there.
    And there are all sort of other fine goodies in there too: mplayer, codecs, etc., not available in the main repositories.

    Thanks, Christian!