I haven't used adobe reader since
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| theboomboomcars Apr 29, 2009 10:27 PM EDT |
um, lets think, I do believe Ubuntu 6.06, and even then it was only with one pdf that wouldn't work right in the pdf reader installed. So I think it is safe to dump adobe. |
| tuxchick Apr 29, 2009 10:33 PM EDT |
Yeah, I wish the thundering herds of Ubuntu howtos that list the "10 things to do after installation" would quit listing "Install Acroreader, Install Flash." |
| caitlyn Apr 29, 2009 11:03 PM EDT |
There are plenty of good alternatives nowadays. evince immediately comes to mind. No need for proprietary Adobe nonsense. |
| phsolide Apr 30, 2009 12:21 AM EDT |
Geeze, I open *everything* at work, PDFs, XLS, DOC, you name it. I use Acrobat. On Windows XP. I kind of want to find out what it feels like to be party to one of these big, corporate intranet meltdowns. I missed the "SQL Slammer" one in 2003 - got laid off the day before it hit, didn't get on at a new company until April - Giant Immoral Corp. had it pretty well in hand by April. I've never really been part of a security fiasco, and I want the experience. |
| caitlyn Apr 30, 2009 12:23 AM EDT |
As someone who gets paid to clean up after a fiasco and recommend (and sometimes even implement) meaningful security I can tell you one thing: you don't want to have that experience, ever. I realize you are almost certainly being sarcastic but having lived through the real thing it just plain isn't worth even joking about. |
| gus3 Apr 30, 2009 12:37 AM EDT |
You don't want the experience. If the company can find a way to make you the scapegoat, they will. |
| Steven_Rosenber Apr 30, 2009 1:24 AM EDT |
I actually just recently started using Adobe Reader (the Linux version). I'd been having trouble with the size of the printouts in Xpdf ... guess it's time to switch back. |
| caitlyn Apr 30, 2009 2:48 AM EDT |
@gus3: Yep. I think I've told this story before, but... I did a five month contract cleaning up mess after a number of offices were consolidated down to one. Security was a nightmare. They had incidents and had basically fired all the sys admins who were, of course, supposed to be to blame. Sure enough those admins had warned the company of the problems and had made very good recommendations which were roundly ignored or, more often, deliberately prohibited by management. They were fired anyway. |
| tracyanne Apr 30, 2009 7:25 AM EDT |
I don't use Adobe Reader on any OS that I use. |
| NoDough Apr 30, 2009 9:49 AM EDT |
TA, what do you use on Windows? |
| jdixon Apr 30, 2009 9:55 AM EDT |
> ...what do you use on Windows? Foxit Reader, while far from perfect, seems to be much better than Adobe. |
| gus3 Apr 30, 2009 10:26 AM EDT |
Buncha wimps. I read PDF's raw and decode them in my head. |
| jdixon Apr 30, 2009 10:36 AM EDT |
> Buncha wimps. Absolutely. What's it to you? :) |
| rijelkentaurus Apr 30, 2009 10:51 AM EDT |
I second Foxit on Windows, fast as lightning compared to Adobe, and it doesn't want to take over the machine. |
| tracyanne Apr 30, 2009 4:42 PM EDT |
No I don't use Foxit. It's requires a rent payment. I use a FOSS tool, I'll give you the name as soon as I get to work. |
| tracyanne Apr 30, 2009 6:25 PM EDT |
I use Sumatra PDF which is distributed under GPLv2 license. |
| jdixon Apr 30, 2009 9:10 PM EDT |
> It's requires a rent payment. I don't remember that being the case, and a quick perusal of the EULA doesn't seem to show it. Am I missing something? I looked at Sumatra, but it didn't seem ready for prime time when I did. Perhaps I should take another look. I've never installed Adobe Acrobat on any of my Linux boxes. Xpdf, kpdf, and evince have always sufficed. |
| tracyanne Apr 30, 2009 10:20 PM EDT |
@jd, I've never used Foxit, I do know it's proprietary. My boss uses it and I was under the impression he'd paid rent on it. I could be wrong. I use whatever comes to hand on my Linux systems usuall Xpdf or kpdf or evince. I don't install Adobe. I've found Sumatra to be quite useful, on Windows. |
| jdixon Apr 30, 2009 11:02 PM EDT |
> ...and I was under the impression he'd paid rent on it. He probably did. They offer a paid version with more features than the free version, but as far as I know the free one is fully free, even for corporate use. There's always the possibility that I'm wrong, of course. It's been known to happen on occasion, unlike Dino. :) |
| tracyanne Apr 30, 2009 11:32 PM EDT |
Actually JD it's not Free, it's merely no rent. |
| dinotrac May 01, 2009 10:53 AM EDT |
jdixon - Just to correct you, I am not infallible. I could, one day, be wrong about something. Even if I die before that happens, it will not mean that the possibility didn't exist, just that it never materialized. |
| jdixon May 01, 2009 2:54 PM EDT |
> Actually JD it's not Free, it's merely no rent. I used local case free deliberately TA. I normally use Free if I mean free in the GNU sense. Foxit Reader is free as in freeware, not free as in Free software. It's good freeware though, so if you're stuck on Windows it's worth looking at. |
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