On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:58 AM, Gaurav Jain gau...@adobe.com wrote:
It's here!
Please see
http://blogs.adobe.com/acroread/2009/03/adobe_reader_91_for_linux_and.html
Finally! With Tabs now.
Even move them around, in the order you like:
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Martin Bochnig mar...@martux.org wrote:
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:58 AM, Gaurav Jain gau...@adobe.com wrote:
It's here!
Please see
http://blogs.adobe.com/acroread/2009/03/adobe_reader_91_for_linux_and.html
Finally! With Tabs now.
Even move them around, in
It's here!
Please see
http://blogs.adobe.com/acroread/2009/03/adobe_reader_91_for_linux_and.html
-Gaurav
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I've been a heavy PDF user (both generating and viewign on my AMD64
Solaris10 box. I think it ma
kes little sense NOT to have the latest Adobe's acroread on this platform.
Is there any discussion about letting Adobe make it available?
One day, but for now there's a SPARC emulator for
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been a heavy PDF user (both generating and viewign on my AMD64
Solaris10 box. I think it ma
kes little sense NOT to have the latest Adobe's acroread on this platform.
Is there any discussion about letting Adobe make it available?
One day, but
Michael E. Thomadakis wrote:
Now something irrelevant to acroread but very relevant to other concerns
for more updtodate desktop for Solaris: Is SUN planning on releasing a
more uptodate graphical desktop for Solaris10?
Not at this time - most of the Solaris desktop work is being focused on
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been a heavy PDF user (both generating and viewign on my AMD64
Solaris10 box. I think it
ma
kes little sense NOT to have the latest Adobe's acroread on this platform.
Is there any discussion about letting Adobe make it available?
One day,
I see I've just finished entering 'feature request' in their site
and I saw your message.
Now something irrelevant to acroread but very relevant to other concerns
for more updtodate desktop for Solaris: Is SUN planning on releasing a
more uptodate graphical desktop for Solaris10?
I
I've been a heavy PDF user (both generating and viewign on my AMD64 Solaris10
box. I think it makes little sense NOT to have the latest Adobe's acroread on
this platform.
Is there any discussion about letting Adobe make it available?
Michael
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Michael E. Thomadakis wrote:
I've been a heavy PDF user (both generating and viewign on my AMD64
Solaris10 box. I think it makes little sense NOT to have the latest Adobe's
acroread on this platform.
Is there any discussion about letting Adobe make it available?
Letting Adobe make it
[ I realise this is an old thread, but it seems to reawaken about once a year
anyway :-) ]
There may just may be some light at the end of the tunnel. Have a
look at
http://blogs.adobe.com/acroread/2008/03/feature_requests_for_adobe_rea.html
and check out point 3. This blog entry is
Kaiwai Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If we did _all_ do the same, Adbobe booths on big fairs will be full
of
complaining people
*shrugs* As much as I would love to see Adobe listen, they don't listen.
A company run by, quite frankly, arrogant pricks, are not going to
listen to
Sun and other have asked (even very nicely) but
Adobe has not budged.
Aaahhh, what exactly did Adobe say? What was their reasoning? Their answer
would interest me very, very much. What did they answer?
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Because Adobe's promise of a *Portable*-DF is not
true any longer, since
they only support WinNT_x86 / Linux_x86 and maybe
Mac{ppc|x86} users for
circa 5 years now. All the other platforms are left
out, more or less.
I wouldn't be so quick to write that. As far as I know, Adobe has
UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sun and other have asked (even very nicely) but
Adobe has not budged.
Aaahhh, what exactly did Adobe say? What was their reasoning? Their answer
would interest me very, very much. What did they answer?
I do not believe this. There are other rumors
Martin Bochnig wrote:
[...]
Beyond a few exceptions, it seems to be Adobe's
principle to only
support one or two main environments?
So maybe one should believe them, that they do not
have anything special
against OpenSolaris_x86.
Maybe just a lack of interest in widespread platform
[...]
Its pathetic when companies like Adobe only look at
quarter-to-quarter
profits rather than long term strategy. But hey,
thats corporate America
- explains why the credit crunch was an inevitable
thing that was going
to occur.
corporate America isn't any one thing - it's not only
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
*shrugs* As much as I would love to see Adobe listen, they don't listen.
A company run by, quite frankly, arrogant pricks, are not going to
listen to the lone voice in the woods - the best one can expect is for
companies like Sun, Red Hat and Novell to donate money,
This is also interesting
http://blogs.adobe.com/johnnyl/2007/08/innovate_or_integrate_3.html
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UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sun and other have asked (even very nicely) but
Adobe has not budged.
Aaahhh, what exactly did Adobe say? What was their reasoning? The=
ir answer would interest me very, very much. What did they answer?
I do not believe this. There are other
On 23/08/07, Alan Burlison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
*shrugs* As much as I would love to see Adobe listen, they don't listen.
A company run by, quite frankly, arrogant pricks, are not going to
listen to the lone voice in the woods - the best one can expect is for
On 23/08/07, Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Its pathetic when companies like Adobe only look at
quarter-to-quarter
profits rather than long term strategy. But hey,
thats corporate America
- explains why the credit crunch was an inevitable
thing that was going
to
On 23/08/07, Alan Burlison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is also interesting
http://blogs.adobe.com/johnnyl/2007/08/innovate_or_integrate_3.html
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I find it bloody rich about Adobe crapping on about opensource - no one
wants a damn thing opensourced of theres, we want
On 8/23/07, Alan Burlison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
*shrugs* As much as I would love to see Adobe listen, they don't listen.
A company run by, quite frankly, arrogant pricks, are not going to
listen to the lone voice in the woods - the best one can expect is for
Spewing bile on this list, or on comment sections doesn't help.
Everyone knows that the past is the past. Let's focus on the future.
To me , the most important thing that can come out of this is
the end of endless Adobe Acrobat Reader for Solaris/x86 threads
in opensolaris-discuss :-)
Casper
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
Setting up blogs mean jack if they don't actually produce some damn
results - damn I hate it when companies think that with a blog and a
few hollow words that they can create a so-called 'community'. Less
blathering more programming and compiling.
Take a deep breath,
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
[ ... acroread/UNIX blog ... ]
Setting up blogs mean jack if they don't actually produce some damn
results - damn I hate it when companies think that with a blog and a
few hollow words that they can create a so-called 'community'. Less
blathering
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
I find it bloody rich about Adobe crapping on about opensource - no one
wants a damn thing opensourced of theres, we want their damn products on
Solaris x86 - its just that damn simple. Keep the code closed, I and many
others don't give a toss about the status of the
Frank Hofmann wrote:
If that's not encouraging to you, feel free to go back sulking in your
cave ;) but personally, I take it as a great sign of things to come !
Good news indeed :)
My sentiments entirely :-)
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On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Alan Burlison wrote:
http://blogs.adobe.com/acroread/2007/08/launching_the_adobe_reader_on.html
It's time to get the ball rolling for the much awaited blog for Adobe
Reader on Unix platforms. The purpose of this blog is to provide a
platform for developers and the users
The problem is not really just with Adobe Acrobat, it's also with the rest of
their product line. They have a great history of shooting themselves in the
foot with their own market. I have seen many, many content publishing companies
go through all sorts of grief with Adobe over software
I think the key thing here isn't that we don't have Adobe's reader but
that there are things lacking in the reader that we do ship (that the
Adobe reader does have).
Things I am aware of are:
* Fill in forms support
* Markup/Collab - this one got me when someone sent design review
comments
Aaron Wilson writes:
I found this thread via google. If I can do that then by chance some
Did you find the other lengthy threads about Acroread and Solaris via
google?
We've discussed this many times over. The discussion results in the
venting of many opinions, but no actual results. Some
The problem is with bringing this thread up again ... and again
... and again. Talking about it here is not likely to help, because
we're at best the choir. It's Adobe that needs to get the message.
Yes but we should also realize that the majority of people on the
Net or generally any forum
James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem is with bringing this thread up again ... and again
... and again. Talking about it here is not likely to help, because
we're at best the choir. It's Adobe that needs to get the message.
I cary this message to Adobe on every fair I attend
Joerg Schilling wrote:
I cary this message to Adobe on every fair I attend since the last 4+ years.
I tell them that Adobe is not viable any more and that PDF in whole is no
longer
trusworthy. This is because Adobe does not support all platforms anymore.
If we did _all_ do the same, Adbobe
Martin Bochnig wrote:
Because Adobe's promise of a *Portable*-DF is not true any longer, since
they only support WinNT_x86 / Linux_x86 and maybe Mac{ppc|x86} users for
circa 5 years now. All the other platforms are left out, more or less.
The market will judge them, earlier or later, their
On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 14:20 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem is with bringing this thread up again ... and again
... and again. Talking about it here is not likely to help, because
we're at best the choir. It's Adobe that needs to get the
On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 14:33 +0200, Martin Bochnig wrote:
Joerg Schilling wrote:
I cary this message to Adobe on every fair I attend since the last 4
+ years.
I tell them that Adobe is not viable any more and that PDF in whole
is no longer
trusworthy. This is because Adobe does not
Any new word on this now that IBM is selling Intel based servers with Solaris
installed? I manage with Evince, gpdf, xpdf, etc. It would be nice for our
Engineers to be able to use Adobe Reader 8 so they can view 3d PDFs.
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Aaron Wilson writes:
Any new word on this now that IBM is selling Intel based servers with Solaris
installed? I manage with Evince, gpdf, xpdf, etc. It would be nice for our
Engineers to be able to use Adobe Reader 8 so they can view 3d PDFs.
Help us out here. How would the two have
All I'm saying is
Intel based IBM servers + Solaris 10 x86 = greater Solaris x86 market
share = greater demand for Adobe Reader on Solaris x86
So is there any new word if Adobe is planning to release a more current
version of Adobe Reader for Solaris x86?
Heck I'd even settle for the 7.0
Aaron Wilson writes:
Intel based IBM servers + Solaris 10 x86 = greater Solaris x86 market
share = greater demand for Adobe Reader on Solaris x86br
br
So is there any new word if Adobe is planning to release a more current
version of Adobe Reader for Solaris x86?br
Ugh. How I hope that
On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 17:14 -0400, James Carlson wrote:
Aaron Wilson writes:
Intel based IBM servers + Solaris 10 x86 = greater Solaris x86 market
share = greater demand for Adobe Reader on Solaris x86br
br
So is there any new word if Adobe is planning to release a more current
version
A simple yes or no would have sufficed.
I found this thread via google. If I can do that then by chance some
marketing
guy at Adobe trying to get a preliminary feel for whether there is a
demand for porting Reader on Sol x86 can too. Then again a marketing
guy might
find googling a tad too
Hey Aaron,
Don't take it personally and remember that Sun engineers are just like
any other engineers, human. The Acrobat issue has been a source of
frustration for a long time. Different folks are just in different
phases of grief (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubler-Ross_model) ;)
-Artem
On Monday 05 June 2006 06:00 pm, Dennis Clarke wrote:
We can always go to their offices and chain ourselves to a tree in the
front yard. Or better yet, we chain oursleves to the CEO's car bumper.
Something drastic .. because nothing else works with them.
Maybe the bomb in the car would get
On Saturday 03 June 2006 11:04 am, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 28 May 2006 06:53 am, Joerg Schilling wrote:
A company that does not create new versions of their software in more
than 6 years _is_ dead.
The thing is that Adobe does create new
On Saturday 03 June 2006 11:04 am, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 28 May 2006 06:53 am, Joerg Schilling wrote:
A company that does not create new versions of their software in more
than 6 years _is_ dead.
The thing is that Adobe does create new
Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 28 May 2006 06:53 am, Joerg Schilling wrote:
A company that does not create new versions of their software in more than
6 years _is_ dead.
The thing is that Adobe does create new versions of their software in less
time than you state, just
Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Glenn Weinberg wrote:
We've tried. Multiple times. Our MDE (Market Development Engineering)
team offered to do all the work. (Not that there is much. As you all
know it's
just a recompile.) The answer has always been no.
I wouldn't be so
On Sunday 28 May 2006 06:53 am, Joerg Schilling wrote:
A company that does not create new versions of their software in more than
6 years _is_ dead.
The thing is that Adobe does create new versions of their software in less
time than you state, just that they don't do it for Solaris on x86.
Rich Teer wrote:
We have gpdf, but I don't know how good it is, and ISTR something called
evince
(sp?) is the way forward in that arena...
evince should be replacing gpdf in Nevada Build 41 with the GNOME 2.14
integration.
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Glenn Weinberg wrote:
We've tried. Multiple times. Our MDE (Market Development Engineering)
team offered to do all the work. (Not that there is much. As you all
know it's
just a recompile.) The answer has always been no.
I wouldn't be so quick to claim it is just a recompile.
I lurked
Rich Teer wrote:
We have gpdf, but I don't know how good it is, and ISTR something called
evince
(sp?) is the way forward in that arena...
evince should be replacing gpdf in Nevada Build 41 with the GNOME 2.14
integration.
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Sun
Yes you could run the linux Acrobat binary in Brandz, but I'd advocate
using evince instead. It's opensource and from my experience, it works
better than acroread. I brought up a pdf from my ISP the other day, it
looked O.K. in acroread (sparc) but printed as all ps. Evince
displayed it and
On 26 May 2006, at 23:33, David J. Orman wrote:
Just like it doesn't make a whole lot of sense that Adobe hasn't
released an Intel Mac version of CS2. No sense whatsoever.
(OT: That's mainly because Adobe were using CodeWarrior for
everything, and Universal binaries can only be compiled
On Sun, 28 May 2006, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Rich Teer wrote:
We have gpdf, but I don't know how good it is, and ISTR something called
evince
(sp?) is the way forward in that arena...
evince should be replacing gpdf in Nevada Build 41 with the GNOME 2.14
integration.
Excellent. I'm
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
And with ODF and XPS (from Microsoft), is PDF relevant any longer?
You (and others suggesting this) are kidding, right?
Even *if* XPS turns out to be much more feature-compelling then PDF,
there are several too-large obstacles:
1) Even if new documents start to be
On Friday 26 May 2006 02:27 pm, Dennis Clarke wrote:
We need to seriously go over to the doors of Adobe and get them to play
ball. Heck, if we have to we simply tell them to hand over the code to an
ISV and get it ported. Then we hand it back and life goes on. How tough
can it be?!?
This
On Friday 26 May 2006 02:47 pm, Joerg Schilling wrote:
I do this since more than three years on every fair where I see an Adobe
both. I don't understand their behavior.
Well, do you know that Mac almost lost support for AcroRead just prior to
Apple's resurgance back to life? The beancounters
Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 26 May 2006 02:47 pm, Joerg Schilling wrote:
I do this since more than three years on every fair where I see an Adobe
both. I don't understand their behavior.
Well, do you know that Mac almost lost support for AcroRead just prior to
Apple's
On Fri, 26 May 2006, Dennis Clarke wrote:
Out of curiosity where do we stand with Adobe Acrobat Reader for Solaris x86?
On a regular JDS session I can bring up Mozilla and hit some page that
suggests that I get the Adobe Acrobat plugin.
I wish we would ship a native GNOME browser (ie
We've tried. Multiple times. Our MDE (Market Development Engineering)
team offered to do all the work. (Not that there is much. As you all
know it's
just a recompile.) The answer has always been "no."
I do plan to try again with JohnnyL, although it's worth noting that
Acrobat is not in his
On Sat, 27 May 2006, Glenn Weinberg wrote:
We've tried. Multiple times. Our MDE (Market Development Engineering)
team offered to do all the work. (Not that there is much. As you all know
it's just a recompile.) The answer has always been no.
I do plan to try again with JohnnyL,
On May 27, 2006, at 9:02 AM, Rich Teer wrote:
Hmm, if that fails, perhaps we (Solaris users) should take the hint
from
Adobe, and boycott the use of PDF? We should rename it to NVPDF
(for Not
Very Portable...). If {Star, Open} Office supports read-only docs,
maybe
that is the way for
On Sat, 27 May 2006, David J. Orman wrote:
Unfortunately, that really isn't a good solution. The whole point of using
PDFs is just about anybody can read them, and they look the same on whatever
platform. Unfortunately, that leaves Solaris x86 out in the pasture. The
problem with going with
I take your point, but this is very much a chicken-and-egg
problem. Adobe's
monopoly didn't appear overnight. Acrobat became popular as more
people used
it to distribute documents. Perhaps the same trick would work for
ODF.
You are, of course, completely correct. The same trick
Hmm, if that fails, perhaps we (Solaris users) should take the hint from
Adobe, and boycott the use of PDF? We should rename it to NVPDF (for Not
Very Portable...). If {Star, Open} Office supports read-only docs, maybe
that is the way for us to go?
Propose the OPDF, or Open Portable Document
Propose the OPDF, or Open Portable Document Format and try to get the
industry to move away from the proprietary and not at all portable
document format.
What about using linux emul (whatever else it's being called these days)
for running the Acrobat binary unmodified?
I know the other BSD's
Out of curiosity where do we stand with Adobe Acrobat Reader for Solaris x86?
On a regular JDS session I can bring up Mozilla and hit some page that
suggests that I get the Adobe Acrobat plugin.
I click on the Get the PlugIn button and that takes me to :
Dennis Clarke wrote:
No Solaris x86 ? Are we able to perhaps influence this to have more up to
date software options ?
I for one have posted to their user forum, asking for a recompile to
x86. I suggest all interested parties do so.
- Matt
Dennis Clarke wrote:
No Solaris x86 ? Are we able to perhaps influence this to have more up
to
date software options ?
I for one have posted to their user forum, asking for a recompile to
x86. I suggest all interested parties do so.
Is this the best tool that we have ?
There must be
On Fri, 26 May 2006, Dennis Clarke wrote:
No Solaris x86 ? Are we able to perhaps influence this to have more up to
date software options ?
An older version (4?) of Acrobat Reader is available for SOlaris x86,
but you need to get it via Adobe's FTP site IIRC. I have a copy here,
but I doubt
Matt Ingenthron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dennis Clarke wrote:
No Solaris x86 ? Are we able to perhaps influence this to have more up to
date software options ?
I for one have posted to their user forum, asking for a recompile to
x86. I suggest all interested parties do so.
I do
, might make a difference. I doubt it though.
David
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From: Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Friday, May 26, 2006 11:47 am
Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86
Matt Ingenthron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dennis Clarke wrote:
No Solaris
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