[SOLVED] Anyone recommend Adobe Acrobat?

hack3rcon · 06-14-2015, 02:15 PM

Hello.
Anyone recommend Adobe Acrobat for reading PDF in Linux? Someone told me that it have some security bugs.

Any idea?

jdkaye · 06-14-2015, 04:18 PM

Absolutely not. Adobe has made a point of not supporting Linux. I am quite happy using Okular. There are many, many other pdf readers available for linux.
jdk

astrogeek · 06-14-2015, 05:13 PM

While I still install Acroread for some of my users, along with a cautionary statement, I have changed all my own uses to Okular. I also still use Xpdf at times.

As jdkaye says, Adobe has always treated GNU/Linux users as second or third class citizens, when it acknowledges them at all. And their products generally suck anyway... so avoid them where possible.

frankbell · 06-14-2015, 09:51 PM

Okular is my go-to PDF reader on Linux. I find it superior to the others.

I won't even use Adobe Reader on Windows. It's a kludge.

John VV · 06-14-2015, 11:30 PM

There are so many other pdf readers and tools that adobe is a non starter

veerain · 06-15-2015, 01:28 AM

Mupdf is better than acrobat reader/poppler based ones. Xpdf is also good.

hack3rcon · 06-15-2015, 08:26 AM

Okular is for KDE and I use Gnome.

Nightspirit322 · 06-15-2015, 09:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hack3rcon

Okular is for KDE and I use Gnome.

Then use Evince. It's the gnome document reader.

Nightspirit322 · 06-15-2015, 09:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hack3rcon

Okular is for KDE and I use Gnome.

Then use Evince. It's the gnome document reader.

erik2282 · 06-15-2015, 10:59 AM

Hmm... I didn't know Adobe Acrobat was available for Linux, I thought only Adobe Reader was. For pdf-viewing I use Okular for my Debian/KDE machines, and Foxit Reader for my Centos Machine. I used to use Evince on Centos but for some reason I can't print pdfs on it. I've tried recreating evice profile to no avail, so Foxit it is for that machine. I dont do any pdf editing, so dont have much experience on that but I've heard pdfedit is pretty good. See here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit/

frankbell · 06-15-2015, 09:04 PM

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Okular is for KDE and I use Gnome.

I see no objection to running KDE applications under a Gnome (or, since I don't use Gnome, Gnome-like) desktop. With the size of contemporary hard drives, having a few extra libraries lying about is really no big deal.

I've used both Evince and Okular. I find Okular superior.

John VV · 06-15-2015, 10:38 PM

i used to use Gnome2 and QT based kde programs all the time

now i use KDE because of gnome3 but ...
you can run Gmone programs in kde and kde programs in Gnome

DavidMcCann · 06-16-2015, 12:09 PM

The last time I was using Adobe, it refused a particular pdf on the grounds that I didn't have Japanese support installed. The document was in English! The only time a native Linux reader has had problems was with back issues of Linux Format magazine, which were produced on a Mac! Otherwise, I use lots of pdf books (digitalised by Google, Microsoft, Chicago University, etc) and articles (retrieved from Jstor) with no problems.

average_user · 06-16-2015, 12:19 PM

I don't recommend using proprietary software if there are open source good-quality equivalents.

Go for evince

What I like about is that it refreshes automatically when PDF is changed. It's useful when you are creating a PDF document with Latex.

veerain · 06-16-2015, 12:22 PM

Xpdf opens some pdf files correctly which poppler based ones don't. Mupdf doesn't has such problems. Zathura is a good pdf and other doc viewer.

Keith Hedger · 06-16-2015, 12:25 PM

Wouldn't touch adobe software with a 10' battle lance, for all the reasons given above, also I try to avoid pdf files whenever possible I find them akward to use, I prefer a more text like file, but I do keep xpdf around for emergencies.