Adobe Reader did drop us too?
 

Hi,

Adobe Reader is today of the best PDF reader.
However it seems that they also drop us.

However Android replace Linux. Maybe one day Android will replace Linux too. Who really knows.

Well, so far, we will miss Adobe Reader on Linux.
Maybe it could be possible to run the Android version one on Linux?

Herewith the regular download link from Adobe:
http://get.adobe.com/de/reader/otherversions/

thank you in advance
Regards

I guess 2 years ago. I never noticed.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-sourc...ns-linux/10418

It is very pittyful since Adobe Reader is really far far far better than any pdf opensource alternative.

+1 Adobe Reader was lightweight (no dependencies needed).

That is not a claim I would expect to see for adobe reader!

Among its more unusable and light weight advanced features is the simple search. Have you ever done a simple search in a multi-page document? 100 pages? 1000 pages? Bring lunch! I have always wondered what it could possibly be doing with all those trillions of CPU cycles, matching single characters in what is still just linear memory blocks?! I stand in awe!

Mostly a pdf reader is for me (my personal use) to read in a nice fullscreen and that links fully work.
I never search anything into a pdf.

Well, one cannot say that Adobe Reader was not sufficient for most use/purposes.

I find Okular far superior to Acrobat Reader, but Linux is about choice.

One more reason to hate them.

Okular is better.

Back in the day I hated PDFs - they were large, unportable (Adobe Reader for DOS stopped at version 1, afaik), and the reader ran like a slug in a treacle mine. Then I dicovered Linux and xpdf, and was soon converted! :)

Admittedly, the more recent Adobe readers for Linux were a lot better, but I still prefer xpdf for raw speed, and Okular for features. I've never used PDF forms, so won't miss them.

Uhm, Xeratul, that doesn't mean it was lightweight. It means that the dependencies were included. That's why the download was so large.

As PDF readers go, Calibre's quite good, and the binary distribution of Calibre includes its dependencies too.

For a long time I was not even aware that there was an official Adobe Reader version for Linux. I've always used the alternative Linux versions and never had issues with them.