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Adobe Reader 7.0 for Linux in outland
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Fri Mar 25 10:30:22 2005
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:30:09 -0500
To: software-announce@MIT.EDU
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Adobe Reader, the program formerly known as Acrobat Reader, finally
has a modern version available for Linux (7.0). Still none for Solaris
(or any other unix platforms) , though.
add outland
acroread7 &
Comments to bug-outland@mit.edu, though we can probably do little more
than laugh at you if there's a problem. Adobe hasn't officially
released this yet, but it's on their web and ftp servers, and was
discussed on slashdot.
I considered frobbing the wrapper script to instantiate a
$HOME/.adobe/Acrobat/7.0/Preferences file to perhaps avoid EULA
clickthrough, and to enable keyboard shortcuts by default (why are
they off? You must enable Preferences -> General -> Use single-key
accelerators to access tools to get it), but decided not to.
Presumably it will move to another locker soon. If it proves
stable and doesn't move to the acro locker, I'll move it to the
sipb locker in a month or so.
It does indeed start faster than 5.0.10, but not when it has to run
out of AFS and 5.0.10 is local on Athena machines. Eit. AFS cache
works, though. 1.7 seconds vesus 5.2 seconds.
Local copy of the installer is at /mit/outland/src/AdbeRdr70_linux_enu.tar.gz
(aka http://web.mit.edu/outland/src/AdbeRdr70_linux_enu.tar.gz), for your
convenience.
Enjoy.
--jhawk
