Adobe To Port AIR To Linux

unityofsaints writes "Up until now, Adobe hasn't done much in terms of porting its applications to Linux, as its only product to have recieved any kind of Linux implementation is Flash. This may be about to change because the company has announced a Linux port of AIR, its web application development software. No definite release date is mentioned in the interview with Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch, just a vague 'later this year.'"

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Re:PDF?

[Homr Zodyssey]

Acrobat Reader works fine on our Linux and Solaris machines.

Thats funny, cause it doesn't work for shyt under Windows.

I've spent a good deal of effort trying to figure out a way to print PDFs from my .NET Windows Forms app. So far I've found 2 free (as in beer) alternatives. Acrobat Reader (post-v8.0) leaves an empty Reader window up on the desktop and doesn't play well with batches of print jobs. And Ghostscript requires an install and then needs directories manually added to the user's PATH.

I'm mostly ranting off topic here cause I'd love it if anyone could tell me a good way to silently send PDFs to the printer on a windows machine.

Re:That's nice, but how about FreeBSD?

[Wowsers]

64 bit Flash would be more useful for us Linux users. How many more years are we to wait for that (ditto for a 64 bit Java plugin)?