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Re: Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too

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On 2014-02-25 15:34, RS Wood wrote:
> Dan Espen wrote:
>> Hils<hils@saynotospam.net>  writes:
>>
>>> On 2014-02-25 10:30, RS Wood wrote:
>>>>  From the "gentlemen, start your flamethrowers" department:
>>> :-)
>>>> Title: Dear Adobe: Make Software for Linux Too
> 
> Thing is, Adobe does make Acrobat Reader for *nix, and it's not very
> good.  Slow to start, cludgy interface, etc.  There are very few times I
> need to load it to read a PDF; 99% of my use cases I'm able to use
> okular or something else.  But at work (Windows) I've got the full-on
> Adobe Acrobat and I don't like it much better.  The interface is getting
> worse, not better, it occasionally hangs, and simple things have gotten
> harder to do.  I can't even find half the stuff I used to do, like
> reducing file size by down-sampling images.
> 
> If this is the kind of software Adobe would write for Linux users, I'd
> say "hands off."

PDF-XChange is (or was, the last time I frequently used Windoze) far
better than Acrobat Reader. Something as good as that for *n*x might be
worth a look. IMX every new Adobe release installed not only more
bloated application software but more crap with it.

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Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too RS Wood  <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-25 10:30 +0000
  Re: Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-02-25 14:08 +0000
    Re: Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2014-02-25 09:32 -0500
      Re: Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-25 15:34 +0000
        Re: Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-02-25 20:04 +0000
        Re: Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-27 15:38 -0800
      Re: Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-02-25 21:31 +0000
        Re: Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-02-26 10:46 +0000
          Re: Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-02-27 10:08 +0000

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