On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:10:19 -0800 NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo: > On 12/16/2007 09:59 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > Craig is also correct that you can't get Acrobat running > > under Linux, not even the Windows version with Wine or Crossover.
> That is incorrect. I don't know about the latest versions of Acrobat, > but I have Acrobat 4.05a installed and working just fine under Wine. The > trick is to not try to install from the CD's autorun menu, but instead > use setup.exe directly from the /ACROBAT4 directory. > > I've not tried it yet, but I suspect that if you download the Acrobat > trial version, you can probably get that to install as well. That is very interesting. Unfortunately, Acrobat 4 can't do editable PDFs. That functionality required 7.0 or later, and (I think) only the Pro version. Nevertheless I am glad to hear that at least 4.05a can be made to run under Wine. I based my statement on the compatibility databases at winehq and codeweavers, but I must admit I haven't looked at them in some time. Thanks for updating me. I no longer use Wine or Crossover Office, although I did at one time buy Crossover Office. Instead, since I am no longer running any Windows computers, I used my XP/2000/NT licenses to run Windows 2000 in VirtualBox. I could easily install Acrobat Pro 7.0 (or probably 8.0), but OOo and Scribus create all the editable PDFs that I need, so I see no need to give Adobe any money. Besides, recent versions of Acrobat require activation, something that I swore a long time ago would not happen on any computer I own. Having said that, the last time I created an editable PDF in OOo it had a limitation in that you could select any font you wanted for the PDF control, but what you got was Arial or Helvetica or something that was hard coded into OOo. Unfortunately, I need characters from the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), which this font does not have. Scribus did the same thing, although it allowed you to choose any of four different fonts for the control, so I was able to get by. I haven't had the need to create any editable PDFs in several months, so it's possible that the currrent imbytification of OOo has expanded the choices. I doubt it, however, as OOo/Linux 2.3 still (believe it or not) cannot handle OpenType fonts. Of course, I should create an editable PDF from OOo right now to test this, but I'm in a hurry. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
