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Re: Acrobat 5.0.5 installed on Athena for Sun, Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Thu May 30 15:24:38 2002
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 15:24:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
cc: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>, <netscape-release@mit.edu>,
<release-team@mit.edu>
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I will bear this in mind. I agree with you that you might as well bump it
up now, while Netscape 6.x is being tested anyhow. Note that right now,
Netscape will not see it. Netscape 6.x's preferences handling is a mess.
It looks like I am going to have to roll my own set of defaults -
basically, an entire version of the .mozilla tree which will be copied to
the user's locker on first run. Until that's done, the browser will have
lots of minor problems, including not finding Acrobat properly.
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Alex T Prengel wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've just installed Acrobat Reader 5.0.5 for Suns and Linux machines.
>
> To run it now:
>
> add acro; acroread -ver 5.0.5
>
> or
>
> add acro_v5.0.5; acroread
>
> I'm inclined to switch the default to this release within the next day or
> two, unless anyone objects; we can't easily test it as a Netscape helper-app
> until I do. If there are major problems I can revert to the older version.
>
> One issue, from the installation README:
>
> Netscape 6.0
> Acrobat Reader 5.x supports Netscape 4.x and installs a plug-in to
> work with this browser. This plug-in enables users to download, view,
> navigate and print Adobe PDF files, and to fill in PDF forms while
> working inside the browser. With Netscape 6.0, Acrobat Reader 5.x
> works only as a helper application. PDF files must be downloaded in
> their entirety before they can be viewed. Also, with Netscape 6.0, PDF
> forms cannot be filled in when viewed within the Browser.
>
> Also, there is no SGI version now (and I wouldn't be surprised if there
> will never be)- so the SGI default will need to stay at 4.0.5.
>
> Alex
>
