On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 22:55, Nick Rout wrote: > Following up on a slashdot story, i was pleasantly surprised to be able > to install Adobe's Acrobat Reader for Linux version 7.0. > > Adobe have had a version 5.x version of Reader out for some time, but > appeared to abandon Linux with version 6. (6 is a dog on wondows so > perhaps its not a bad thing). > > 5.x is pretty clunky and ugly, with motif widgets. It now uses gtk of > some variety. All in all prettier. > > The rendering seems very nice, and it prints well to the kde printing > system. > > If you need support for recent pdf features, then this is quite nice. > However it is a 39M download and requires 115M of HD space. > > You should forst check your distro for a package suitable for > installation via the distro's package manager, or if you want to use the > Adobe original you can find it locally here: > > http://linux.jetstreamgames.co.nz/gentoo/distfiles/AdbeRdr70_linux_enu.tar. >gz > > Theres no compiling, and there is a script which is supposed to do all > the work of installation. > > There is also an rpm here (as well as the same file that is mirrored at > the above URL) > > ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/7x/7.0/enu/ > > or for gentoo users, you just need to: > > sudo echo "app-text/acroread ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords > sudo emerge -av acroread
there is a Debian package now available, (which will save using alien to install the .rpm package) - I've tried both and the .deb version might be a bit more stable?? see: http://dotmepis.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=190&forum=12#forumpost1121 -- cheers................dave g Mail to: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ____________________________________________ Kmail/Kontact KDE Desktop 3.3.2 SimplyMEPIS Linux - Kernel 2.6.7 (i686) ____________________________________________
