Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.1.1. Point of Interest.

cwizardone · 10-30-2007, 12:35 PM

Just as a point of interest, I just installed Adobe Acrobat Reader, version 8.1.1 in Slackware 12, running the KDE desktop, and it works (which surprised me.

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Just thought I would pass on the good news.

http://www.adobe.com/products/acroba...lversions.html

(and, No, I don't have any affiliation with the company.

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duryodhan · 10-30-2007, 12:48 PM

Is the adobe pdf reader in Linux as bloated as in Win or is it any good?

This is good news cos many sites and banks require Adobe PDF to read pdfs , they use adobe's propreitery security extensions.

rworkman · 10-30-2007, 12:52 PM

I've been happy with it as well.
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12.0/office/acroread/

H_TeXMeX_H · 10-30-2007, 12:56 PM

What's wrong with xpdf or kpdf ? I don't need any bloated crap from Adobe. If I could, I wouldn't even use their damn flashplayer that has stability issues.

acummings · 10-30-2007, 01:14 PM

FWIW, some time ago, src2pkg 1.6 made me a Slack package from Adobe's binary. Specifically, I used src2pkg's trackinstall component. Thus:

root@AB60R:~# hig track
125 trackinstall -S -n=adobereader -v=8.1.1.1 -i='sh INSTALL'
391 trackinstall -S -n=opera -v=9.24.20071015.6 -i='sh install.sh'

root@AB60R:~# alias
alias hig='history | grep'
#<snipped>

pixellany · 10-30-2007, 01:57 PM

I ALSO noticed that v 8.1.1 now has good printing capabilities.......

Not sure why we are ragging on Adobe. I have never had ANY issues with their products on Windows, and they are now providing a degree of Linux support. On my most recent systems, Flash is working perfectly out of the box.

cwizardone · 10-30-2007, 04:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pixellany

I ALSO noticed that v 8.1.1 now has good printing capabilities.......
Not sure why we are ragging on Adobe. I have never had ANY issues with their products on Windows, and they are now providing a degree of Linux support. On my most recent systems, Flash is working perfectly out of the box.

I agree. If they are showing support for Linux, those Linux users who have a use for their products might show a little support in return.

Unlike Corel.
I've been using WordPerfect since version....what was it, 4.2(?), so I was very disappointed to see they no longer offer a version for Linux.
I guess we knew that was coming when Corel accepted a 135 Million U.S. Dollar "investment" from microsoft, but I was hoping it wouldn't happen. Scratch Corel. OpenOffice is now my word processor.

jong357 · 10-30-2007, 07:22 PM

Yea, I've been using adobe reader on linux for a couple years actually. I'm GTK based and it's much nicer than evince, gpdf et. all...

Proprietary stuff still has a place on linux for sure... I'm also enjoying nerolinux 3 more so than any other GTK based burning app out there. :-)

pbhj · 10-31-2007, 08:13 PM

Whenever I've compared them acroreader has always given me a better result than kpdf and xpdf, FWIW. Kpdf is quicker but I presume that's due to using shared libs.

cwizardone · 11-01-2007, 11:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jong357

....Proprietary stuff still has a place on linux for sure... I'm also enjoying nerolinux 3 more so than any other GTK based burning app out there. :-)

How does Nerolinux differ from K3b, i.e., what does it offer that K3b does not?
Thanks.

onebuck · 11-01-2007, 11:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rworkman

I've been happy with it as well.
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12.0/office/acroread/

Hi,

Robby, is the version for this Adobe Slackware package 8.1.1?

rworkman · 11-01-2007, 12:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by onebuck

Hi,

Robby, is the version for this Adobe Slackware package 8.1.1?

It is indeed for 8.1.1 :-)

shadowsnipes · 11-01-2007, 01:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rworkman

It is indeed for 8.1.1 :-)

The slackbuild is basically a slackware package wrapper since Adobe distributes binaries. I can vouch that the reader and slackbuild are quite nice indeed.

Just be sure you keep the seamonkey package on your system if you want HTML support in Adobe reader.

rkelsen · 11-01-2007, 05:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cwizardone

How does Nerolinux differ from K3b, i.e., what does it offer that K3b does not?

No offense, but he did say "more so than any other GTK based burning app"

That said, I agree. K3b is truly excellent. The only extra feature which would be a handy addition is the ability to compress content to fit on a DVD5. I'm currently using DVDShrink (with wine) to do this. But that's neither here nor there, since NeroLinux can't do it anyway...

jong357 · 11-01-2007, 08:32 PM

Right..

K3B doesn't even run on my box because I don't keep QT around.

NeroLinux has BlueRay support. Don't think K3B has it yet. Not sure. Install it and compare them yourself. Been almost 2 years since I tried K3B so I really can't answer that one.

It has much of the same functionality you would find on Nero for Windows. I'm a Nero on Windows fan so I took to it imediately.