iphitus Posted March 14, 2005 Report Share Posted March 14, 2005 And the final version is out, ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/7x/7.0/enu/ Just from using it and comparing it to gpdf and xpdf, i found it to render pages sharper and more quickly, being overall more responsive. It's good to see Adobe showing renewed interest in Linux too. One thing of interest is that in recent times, adobe have first open sourced some libraries, one of which they say that a large percentage of their programs' code is written with, and now the final Adobe reader 7. Cant help but wonder if they're going to port photoshop and illustrator... Enjoy iphitus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted March 14, 2005 Report Share Posted March 14, 2005 Thanks, just installed it. Agreed, its a lot quicker and text is sharper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted March 14, 2005 Report Share Posted March 14, 2005 Woot !!! It's lightning fast! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fangbite Posted March 14, 2005 Report Share Posted March 14, 2005 From what I hear adobe won't port otehr software because Linux has free image editors for the casual user and no interest in high end graphics work. Someday perhaps, but not anytime soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted March 14, 2005 Report Share Posted March 14, 2005 Very nice. Looks like a real app, unlike reader 5X Has a search function that actually works, unlike kpdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted March 15, 2005 Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 long live evince and that new xpdf replacement I've forgotten the name of. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted March 15, 2005 Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 Which of the two files should be downloaded? BTW: those files are BIG!!! Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted March 15, 2005 Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 Which of the two files should be downloaded?BTW: those files are BIG!!! Yves. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I think there both the same, the rpm is the one i installed. Yes, i couldn't believe the file size either, when unpacked its 94MB :o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted March 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 Yeah, its big, but heck, space isnt such a problem now, and I think its worth it. iphitus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted March 15, 2005 Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 94 MB.... Holy cow... space isn't a problem but curioosity begs... wtf does it do for 94MB... now I must install it and see! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted March 15, 2005 Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 does it allow copy and pasting text (on unprotected pdf files of course)? afaik, no linux pdf viewer has that capability yet. ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted March 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 (edited) /opt/adobe/acrobat/Reader/intellinux/plug_ins --:Du -hs 43M . /opt/adobe/acrobat/Reader/intellinux/plug_ins --:ls Accessibility.api DigSig.api PDDom.api SendMail.api AcroForm EFS.api PPKLite.api Spelling.api AcroForm.api EScript.api SOAP.api checkers.api Annotations LegalPDF.api SaveAsRTF.api ewh.api Annots.api MakeAccessible.api SearchFind.api wwwlink.api well, plugins make it do stuff. /opt/adobe/acrobat/Reader/intellinux/lib --:Du -hs 24M . /opt/adobe/acrobat/Reader/intellinux/lib --:ls libACE.so libResAccess.so.0.1 libagluc.so libACE.so.2.07 libWRServices.so libagluc.so.28 libAGM.so libadobelinguistic.so.2 libagluc.so.28.0 libAGM.so.4.14 libadobelinguistic.so.2.0.0 libcrypto.so libAXE16SharedExpat.so libaglcnv.so libcrypto.so.0 libAXE8SharedExpat.so libaglcnv.so.28 libcrypto.so.0.9.6 libAXSLE.so libaglcnv.so.28.0 libcurl.so libBIB.so libagldata.so libcurl.so.2 libBIB.so.1.1 libagldata.so.28 libcurl.so.2.0.2 libCoolType.so libagldata.so.28.0 libssl.so libCoolType.so.5.01 libagli18n.so libssl.so.0 libJP2K.so libagli18n.so.28 libssl.so.0.9.6 libResAccess.so libagli18n.so.28.0 So it's replicating a lot of libs that are normally installed on a linux system, libcurl, libssl, cooltype is probably adobe's font lib, hence the better fonts in this reader - its not using the open source freetype. I assume some of the others are the Adobe library that they use for widgets. Expat is an open source non validating xml parser. and the binary itself is pretty big too /opt/adobe/acrobat/Reader/intellinux/bin --:Du -hs 17M . /opt/adobe/acrobat/Reader/intellinux/bin --:ls acroread Thats 87 of the 95mb accounted for.... Edited March 15, 2005 by iphitus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted March 16, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2005 does it allow copy and pasting text (on unprotected pdf files of course)? afaik, no linux pdf viewer has that capability yet. ciao! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yep! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted March 16, 2005 Report Share Posted March 16, 2005 How big is it? And does it still have the 100% CPU usage problem when used in conjunction with a webbrowser? (i.e opening a pdf file in a web browser using adobe plugin will shoot the cpu usage to the roof). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted March 16, 2005 Report Share Posted March 16, 2005 Well, it doesn't seem to be the cpu hog that it was at all. I was getting spikes while testing it for you, but was watching top and it didn't seem to be the browser or acroread, so I think that might've been something else causing it. Smoother, yes. Quicker, yes. Don't like the little banner ad up in the upper right now. Gives me an error when I try to open a link if I have mozffremote set as the browser. If there's already a running firefox window, I get the error, but the page still opens. If I have no running window, it errors and I never get the page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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