Acroread 6 would be nice [LWN.net]

Acroread 6 would be nice

Posted Nov 3, 2004 16:12 UTC (Wed) by epithumia (subscriber, #23370)
Parent article: Adobe dipping toes into desktop Linux waters (News.com)

If they're going to start somewhere, it would be nice if they started with Acrobat Reader 6. With no free alternative that will do PDF forms and Acroread 5 being a rather poor piece of software, we're in a tough spot. They've shown they can deal with QT at least, so there's some hope of them using something other than Motif.

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Acroread 6 would be nice

Posted Nov 3, 2004 18:43 UTC (Wed) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link]

... and if not, well, there's always LessTif for the "let's do a quick recompile and basically change nothing" crowd.

Speaking of quick recompiles: libwine is licensed under the LGPL. Adobe would probably have to do something WRT color management, where Linux still has a few rough edges, but it's not as if Windows or MacOS was a stellar example of how to map color spaces when they started out there.

Acroread 6 would be nice

Posted Nov 3, 2004 23:43 UTC (Wed) by gilb (subscriber, #11728) [Link]

There is a free alternative, xpdf. In some instances, it works better than Acrobat (not always, but sometimes).

Plus you can do pdf2ps <filename> - | gv -

kghostview also allows you to view pdf files (it uses gs just like pdf2ps above).

Acrobat will lock out printing sometimes, but any of the above options is a work around for those. xpdf will even display encrypted files if you have the password.

Acroread 6 would be nice

Posted Nov 4, 2004 6:35 UTC (Thu) by dvdeug (subscriber, #10998) [Link]

Or just plain gv; I've rarely had a problem with that.