RE: Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0

2006-11-05 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 00:37 -0700 5/11/06, Graeme Forbes wrote: you can easily set a default. I run Acro5, full version, and Acro7 Pro (default), on the same machines, but the solution to having them cohabit peacefully may be that Acro5 is set to open as a classic application. Ditto here with Acrobat 5 and 6,

Acrobatlateral thinking : Implement simultaneous multiple releases [was RE: Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0]

2006-11-05 Thread hedley . finger
Dov and all: This is a good time, though, to repeat my warning that you should not attempt to have either multiple versions of Acrobat, multiple versions of Reader, and/or mixtures of Acrobat and Reader installed on a given system. Although it is possible to coerce the installers to do

RE: Acrobatlateral thinking : Implement simultaneous multiple releases [was RE: Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0]

2006-11-05 Thread hedley . finger
Tina: I would think it would be very difficult to get multiple version working together that do not interfere with each other. Difficult, but not impossible. Software manufacturers should not blame their customers and put problems on their shoulders that can easily (or difficultly) be

Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0

2006-11-05 Thread Graeme Forbes
Dov wrote: "The problems that I mention are more prevalent under Windows than on Mac" which sounds about right. But although "even the Mac has issues with such parallel installations. Some program must respond to double clicks to open/process files from the user interface" you can easily set a

Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0

2006-11-05 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 00:37 -0700 5/11/06, Graeme Forbes wrote: >you can easily set a default. I run Acro5, full version, and Acro7 Pro >(default), on the same machines, but the solution to having them cohabit >peacefully may be that Acro5 is set to open as a classic application. Ditto here with Acrobat 5 and 6,

Acrobatlateral thinking : Implement simultaneous multiple releases [was "RE: Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0"]

2006-11-05 Thread Tina Poole
I would think it would be very difficult to get multiple version working together that do not interfere with each other. FrameMaker doesn't not 'touch' other applications. Acrobat has to work with MS Word, Excel, plus a multitude of other non-Microsoft and Adobe products. And not only work with