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06-14-2015, 01:15 PM
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Anyone recommend Adobe Acrobat?
Hello.
Anyone recommend Adobe Acrobat for reading PDF in Linux? Someone told me that it have some security bugs.
Any idea?
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06-14-2015, 03:18 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Dec 2008
Location: Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, UK
Distribution: Debian Testing Amd64
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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
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06-14-2015, 04:13 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Oct 2008
Distribution: Slackware [64]-X.{0|1|2|37|-current} ::12<=X<=15, FreeBSD_12{.0|.1}
Posts: 6,347
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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.
Last edited by astrogeek; 06-15-2015 at 01:48 PM.
Reason: acrobat -> acroread to be precise
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06-14-2015, 08:51 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Virginia, USA
Distribution: Slackware, Ubuntu MATE, Mageia, and whatever VMs I happen to be playing with
Posts: 19,885
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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.
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06-14-2015, 10:30 PM
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LQ Muse
Registered: Aug 2005
Location: A2 area Mi.
Posts: 17,685
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There are so many other pdf readers and tools that adobe is a non starter
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06-15-2015, 12:28 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2005
Location: Earth bound to Helios
Distribution: Custom
Posts: 2,524
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Mupdf is better than acrobat reader/poppler based ones. Xpdf is also good.
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06-15-2015, 07:26 AM
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Registered: Jan 2015
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Okular is for KDE and I use Gnome.
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06-15-2015, 08:03 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jun 2015
Location: Tampa
Distribution: Fedora/Ubuntu
Posts: 15
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hack3rcon
Okular is for KDE and I use Gnome.
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Then use Evince. It's the gnome document reader.
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06-15-2015, 08:03 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jun 2015
Location: Tampa
Distribution: Fedora/Ubuntu
Posts: 15
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hack3rcon
Okular is for KDE and I use Gnome.
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Then use Evince. It's the gnome document reader.
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06-15-2015, 09:59 AM
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Member
Registered: May 2011
Location: Texas
Distribution: Debian/Ubuntu,CentOS
Posts: 848
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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/
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06-15-2015, 08:04 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Virginia, USA
Distribution: Slackware, Ubuntu MATE, Mageia, and whatever VMs I happen to be playing with
Posts: 19,885
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Quote:
Okular is for KDE and I use Gnome.
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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.
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06-15-2015, 09:38 PM
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LQ Muse
Registered: Aug 2005
Location: A2 area Mi.
Posts: 17,685
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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
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06-16-2015, 11:09 AM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Jul 2006
Location: London
Distribution: PCLinuxOS, Salix
Posts: 6,243
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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.
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06-16-2015, 11:19 AM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2010
Location: Warsaw, Poland
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 608
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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.
Last edited by average_user; 06-16-2015 at 11:20 AM.
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06-16-2015, 11:22 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2005
Location: Earth bound to Helios
Distribution: Custom
Posts: 2,524
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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.
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06-16-2015, 11:25 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jun 2010
Location: Wiltshire, UK
Distribution: Void, Linux From Scratch, Slackware64
Posts: 3,219
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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.
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