Thank you, Adobe Reader 9

http://blog.micropledge.com/2008/07/adobe-reader-9/

by nickb • 18 years ago

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markbao3• 18 years ago

Mac OS X Leopard users:

[spacebar]

saurabh• 18 years ago

Now Linux users can too! http://sourceforge.net/projects/gloobus

lpgauth• 18 years ago

How can it possibly need 210 MB?

froo• 18 years ago

Umm, they needed more room to put in more backdoors?

Dunno really, I'm still trying to comprehend that myself.

mullr• 18 years ago

Might be the recommended amount - it probably wants some space for a disk cache.

trajan• 18 years ago

There is a lot of support for niche features (3D, etc) pushed into the base reader because it provides a significant business advantage to Adobe.

For example, they stand to benefit tremendously if a government agency decides to go with PDF as their document review format over Autodesk's DWF. The fact that the average consumer already has everything they need to use these solutions is a big bullet point in their favor.

They don't stand to lose much if some picky internet folk (not criticizing - I'm one too) decide to use a free alternative because Acrobat's too heavy.

pmorici• 18 years ago

Funny you should say that... There are ads plastered al over the DC metro system for nothing but using Adobe PDF to simplify government forms.

wallflower• 18 years ago

At least Apple is up-front that you need Quicktime when installing iTunes, Adobe just installs the kitchen sink...

bdotdub• 18 years ago

Why can't they allow you to add in these features if you want these features?

There's no reason why the users should be forced to install all these bloaty features.

lst2• 18 years ago

Thinking of it: so PDF maybe stands for (Hidden) Proprietary Document Format?

(In the sense of: you will never ever be able to desire all of our features we are continuously adding to our Take-Over-The-World-Document-Format?)

I'm confused.

nailer• 18 years ago

PDF is an open spec. Adobe's viewer sucking is a separate issue.

lst2• 18 years ago

Do you know the whole story? PDF has not been created by users, but by a company.

Only now we have seen it changing into an ISO standard.

(Originally, Adobe only wanted to see it universally used to sell their PDF writers: please read for free, and please please pay for writing it. Only that it didn't happen this way.)

sant0sk1• 18 years ago

another satisfied customer: http://gusmueller.com/blog/archives/2008/07/adobe_reader_9_i...

st3fan• 18 years ago

What cracks me up is the ReadMe.html that is being installed next to the application. Do they have so little faith in their own PDF format that they decided to use an HTML file?

raganwald• 18 years ago

In all fairness, if the read me contains information about what to do when you can't get the application working...

It would be a huge WTF if the only way to find out why you can't read PDF files is locked inside a PDF file :-)

notauser• 18 years ago

It's a real disaster that Adobe Reader sucks so much. PDF is a wonderful document format - other readers open it in seconds and it works on everything (including Linux, OS X and most phones). But thanks to Adobe if you ever send a PDF file to a windows user you get a five minute rant about how much PDF sucks and can you send it as a wonderful, efficient docx instead :/

eru2• 18 years ago

http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/why-not-pdf.html

Synopsis: PS or PS.gz is even better than pdf.

wmf• 18 years ago

Not for portability. Do most Windows users have PS viewers installed?

newt0311• 18 years ago

I should point out that the article is incorrect. Namely, PDF is a complete superset of PS. Furthermore, it is capable of supporting non-printer specific properties like digital signatures and even external files and animation, none of which are supported by PS. (And before you say that animation is useless, imagine using PDF for presentations). Try reading the PDF 1.6 standard sometime (its dry like all standards but it gives a demonstration of what PDF is capable of).

markbao3• 18 years ago

Yeah. PDF is awesome. Acrobat Reader isn't.

peakok• 18 years ago

Don't forget to get Foxit reader if you don't have it yet : http://www.foxitsoftware.com/

pchivers• 18 years ago

Is it safe to get it for free through the TrialPay offer, or am I going to get spammed/abused for going this route?

markbao3• 18 years ago

Woah, since when did Foxit Reader become not free?

prakash• 18 years ago

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2008/07/04/adobe-9

chaostheory• 18 years ago

on the bright side it's good news for AIR developers since AIR is part of this bundle

dizz• 18 years ago

Mac: <Spacebar> or Preview or indeed Skim... slim and functional, thank you! :-)

JesseAldridge• 18 years ago

And suddenly Stallman doesn't sound so crazy.

apu• 18 years ago

Are there any linux tools to mark-up/comment-on PDFs? I'm often forced to use the windows version of Acrobat to make and view edits on a document, because I haven't found any linux tools that will even display comments (let alone edit them).

jauco• 18 years ago

http://annotations.diariolinux.com/

Thank you, Adobe Reader 9

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