On 3/9/11 2:03 AM, cyberzen wrote:
> hawker a écrit :
>> On 3/8/2011 7:49 AM, Cruz, Jaime wrote:
>>> cyberzen wrote:
>>>> hawker a écrit :
>>>>> I have been using Acrobat reader 9 with Seamonkey for a while with no
>>>>> major issues. I just moved to a new computer and decided to upgrade to
>>>>> Acrobat 10 reader. I am having two major issues and am not sure if
>>>>> it is
>>>>> me, Seamonkey or Acrobat. Since Seamonkey and Acrobat have a long
>>>>> history of not playing well together. I am wondering if anyone else has
>>>>> seen these issues. I am on Windows XP SPIII.
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) If I load an acrobat document in Seamonkey and save it all works
>>>>> well. If I try to save a second Acrobat document seamonkey and acrobat
>>>>> both lock up requiring a force shutdown in the task manager.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2) Acrobat 10 has a new look where there is a "hidden" pop up
>>>>> utility at
>>>>> the bottom to control the page. There is also an more complete control
>>>>> bar at the top of the page. This control bar only occasionally shows
>>>>> up.
>>>>> There is no way to zoom to page size or search a document without this
>>>>> bar and hence when it doesn't show it is annoying.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanx
>>>>> Hawker
>>>>
>>>> I tried Acrobat 10 and I did not liked it.
>>>> I dont remember why but I dont care
>>>> I prefer not viewing pdf in browser window's so I set it to launch
>>>> separately.
>>>> I reverted to Acrobat 9 and turned off auto updates.
>>>> I decided to wait for positive comments on Acrobat 10 and it is not yet
>>>> the case.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Bad idea turning off auto updates, as you won't get the various security
>>> fixes Adobe releases for their software (leaving you vulnerable to all
>>> the attacks on PDF documents in the wild). Auto-update won't install a
>>> new version of Acrobat against your wishes, but it WILL keep your
>>> current version up to date.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> And this is exactly why reverting back to Acrobat 9 (as everyone
>> suggested) is not a good idea either. About a year ago the place I work
>> was getting hammered bad by virus even in well educated computer users.
>> The culprit was exploits in advertisements that exploited acrobat bugs.
>> Seamonkey be darned I still got hit myself since I had the acrobat plug
>> in. The only way around it I know is to disable the acrobat plug in and
>> only use the application to manually read acrobats, but as an engineer
>> who reads data sheets all day that is a PITA.
> 
> thanks for warning
> I did a google search on "pdf exploit"
> is that about the problems you had ?
> 
> by the way I hate the way of adding active material inside pdfs they 
> should remain a passive way of presenting documents ready to print and 
> no more.
> 

I disagree.  I can download my tax forms, insert my data, print the
results, and then mail my forms to the IRS.  The automated processing of
tax forms does not allow for the varying sizes, fonts, etc of Web pages.

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