Screw Drivers and PDF Files

[Jules Richardson]

On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 13:27 -0400, David Holland wrote:
> Jules Richardson wrote:
> 
> >I'd disagree there - V7 eats up 100MB of disk space, and doesn't seem
> >any faster or better at rendering than V5 was (plus it takes a lot
> >longer to start up).
> >  
> >
> 
> V7 has the nifty ability for document authors to cause the document to 
> "phone home" when its opened.
> 
> <end sarcasm>
> 
> http://lwn.net/Articles/129729/

Wow. Well that's V7 gone off my machine anyway. I didn't realise
Javascript was a "feature". I've got a web browser for that :-)

V5.05 for linux took a while to find; it's here though (9MB download
versus 37MB for V7):

http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/unix/5.x/linux-
505.tar.gz

(watch out for the 'feature' if the install which changes ownership of
the source parent directory - always install from a subdir and not
straight from /tmp like I did once :)

cheers

Jules