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Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct?

From philo <philo@privacy.net>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct?
Date 2015-04-10 04:45 -0500
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On 04/10/2015 12:15 AM, William Unruh wrote:
> On 2015-04-10, T <T@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Seems for a while Adobe only had an Acrobat Reader 9
>> for Linux and only 32 bit.  Now nothing (or I just
>> can't find it).
>>
>> Is Acrobat reader just gone from Linux now?  How do you
>> substitute for it?
>
> xpdf, okular, gv...
>>
>> Me personally, I paid for Qoppa's PDF Studio Pro.  And
>> I use the hell out of it and love.  Worth every cent
>> of the 125.00 U$D.
>
> Excellent. good buy.
>
>>
>> For a customer with FC21, I just installed PDF Studio's
>> demo (writes demo across the screen, but you can use
>> it as a read just fine).
>>



It's certainly not gone, just that support was dropped


http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2014/04/install-adobe-reader-ubuntu-1404/



I was more or less forced to install it when I wanted to read a PDF 
issued by the US Government.

Even though it was a PDF it was some unusual proprietary form that could 
not be read by any other PDF reader

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Is Acrobat Reader defunct? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-09 19:15 -0700
  Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? Vilmos Soti <vilmos@soti.ca> - 2015-04-09 20:35 -0700
    Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2015-04-09 22:14 -0700
  Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-04-10 05:15 +0000
    Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2015-04-10 04:45 -0500
    Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-04-10 07:20 -0500
    Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-10 11:16 -0700
      Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-04-10 16:00 -0500
        Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-10 16:01 -0700
          Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-10 16:01 -0700
            Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-10 16:03 -0700
              Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-04-10 20:31 -0500
              Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-04-11 21:04 -0500
                Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-11 21:15 -0700
        Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-04-12 01:26 +0000
          Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-04-11 21:04 -0500
        Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-11 22:35 -0700
          Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-04-12 07:44 -0500
            Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2015-04-12 10:39 -0500
  Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? ray carter <ray@zianet.com> - 2015-04-10 15:39 +0000

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