Screw Drivers and PDF Files

[Doc Shipley]

Paul Koning wrote:

>>>>>>"der" == der Mouse <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca> writes:
> 
> 
>  >> PC's can run either open source or closed source OS's.
>  der> Does Acrobat run under any of the open-source ones?  Is Acrobat
>  der> itself free (at least as-in-beer)? 
> 
> Yes, and yes.  Adobe recently released an update of Acrobat for Linux
> (for a long time they hadn't gone beyond V5; recently they released V7
> which I believe is the current version).  I've used both on my Linux
> (Fedora 1) system.  Both work, though V7 is clearly better.  That
> includes some things I run into at work that other viewers don't
> handle -- such as password-protected files.

   The big prob I've found with the Linux port of v7 is that you can't 
print multiple copies.  I think it's one of Adobe's little nudges to buy 
the full version.  Which of course doesn't exist....


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