On 1/2/13 9:36 AM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: > >> On 1/2/13 6:13 AM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: >>> >>> I've never been able to figure out why some people want to have both >>> programs installed. If you have the full Acrobat program, what good is >>> the Reader? You already have a perfectly good reader in Acrobat. So >>> don't confuse them, and don't confuse the OS, and don't confuse SM. >>> Delete the Reader and just run Acrobat. >>> >> >> Full-featured Adobe Acrobat (reader and writer) costs money. > > I know that. That's why I said "IF you have the full Acrobat > program...." I was assuming you'd bought and paid for it already. > >> Updates cost money. > > Updates within a version are free. Updates to new versions do cost > money. But as you indicate below, you haven't updated to a new version > in 14 years. > >> Once you have installed it, you have the capability of creating PDF >> files and really do not need updates to continue creating PDF files. > > Yes. > >> However, you might need updates for the reader -- Adobe Reader -- to >> avoid security vulnerabilities from "foreign" PDF files (files you >> have downloaded from the Web or received as E-mail attachments). > > This takes us back to my question -- why have the Reader at all if you > already have Acrobat? Acrobat is perfectly capable of displaying and > printing PDFs. > >> I have Adobe Acrobat 4.0 (from 1998?), which still meets my needs as a >> writer. Upgrading to a new version would cost me about $140. >> >> I also have Adobe Reader 11.0, the latest version. Upgrading was free. >> >> When I get a new PC, I just have to be careful to install Adobe Acrobat >> before I install Adobe Reader for SeaMonkey to use the latter. > > So does Reader 11 let you view files that Acrobat 4 can't display? Is > that the point? It hadn't occurred to me that you might still be running > a 1998-vintage program. >
I have no idea if Acrobat 4 cannot view files that Reader 11 can. My configuration is setup so that opening a PDF file -- either in Windows XP or SeaMonkey 2.14.1 -- immediately goes to Reader 11. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Are taxes too high in the U.S.? Check the bar graph at <http://www.rossde.com/taxes/trickling.html> to see. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
