Acrobat 5 experience - xpdf was as good or better. [LWN.net]

Acrobat 5 experience - xpdf was as good or better.

Posted Jan 13, 2005 16:33 UTC (Thu) by TxtEdMacs (subscriber, #5983)
Parent article: Adobe releases Acrobat 7 with Linux reader support (ZDNet)

That was my experience (or subjective response). Indeed, loading Linux on a newly rebuilt machine, I opted not even to bother downloading a copy of Acrobat. I will keep an open mind, however, and if I hear favorable comments I might take another look.

I know that the application is just a reader, however, I was stunned when I found it impossible to copy text (actually code) to emacs.

[My complaint above may not be the fault of Acrobat, since while I was able to save a portion of text into a Linux file using xpdf I could not transfer that text to another file using a bash command. Moreover, examining that file I was shocked at its size (thinking I copied a small sample). I probably have an entire book's chapter of text that is complexly formatted!]

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