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__/ [ Peter Kai Jensen ] on Saturday 16 September 2006 19:14 \__
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> ed wrote:
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>> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2016606,00.asp
...Seen that as well. It was reported last night. Adobe's stock is shaking as
reported profits fall (also a residue of the spendings on the Macromedia
acquisition, which still plays a role) while the stock either surges or
plummets, depending on the day.
About a year ago, just after Acrobat Reader 7 was released (no version 6 for
GNU/Linux), a serious vulnerability in Acrobat Reader for UNIX/Linux was
discovered and an upgrade was a matter of urgency (okay, I probably
exaggerate here). That can really put off the user.
> Never did like their reader plugin anyway. It takes substantial
> hardware to have it load in a reasonable time. Xpdf is a bit too
> primitive for my tastes, but kpdf is quite good and extremely fast if
> you're already using KDE. The only reason I installed the Adobe version
> in the first place was because I needed it for a PDF form, and even that
> didn't work right.
I was going to mention kpdf as well. I use it 90% of the time. The fonts and
images are sometimes displayed as coarse in SUSE 8.1 (just kpdf, not Acrobat
Reader). Ubuntu 4, on the other hand, handles the fonts and resolution just
fine. As for functionality, if it's ever needed, the secondary
application/handler can be called. But Acrobat is heavy, sluggish, bloated,
and poorly integrated into the desktop environment. I always recommend the
use of kpdf, assuming it is available. One nice feature that it makes
possible is live previews of PDF as icons (thumbnails). If made large
enough, you needn't look at filenames. You just see the first page in the
file manager (Konqueror in this case).
Best wishes,
Roy
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