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Acrobat Reader for Linux removed

78 points by decafbad 12y ago

streptomycin 12y ago
Are there any Linux PDF readers that work as well? For instance I reported this bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=628920 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=628920 years ago but the example PDF I included still looks horrible in the latest Evince. So I typically keep a copy of Adobe Reader installed to deal with files like that, but I'd love to replace it with something open source.
- jpgvm 12y ago
  I generally find most PDFs come from the web.. so PDF.js has been more than sufficient for my needs.
- aw3c2 12y ago
  xpdf renders it nicely, it is anti-userfriendly and ancient though. ;) http://i.imgur.com/9FHRqio.png http://i.imgur.com/9FHRqio.png The text looks different because "Syntax Warning: Substituting font 'Times-Roman' for 'NewCenturySchlbk-Roman'". Crazy how that poppler bug is almost 10 years old and not fixed even though it seems like such an integral part of a PDF library.
  - bsznjyewgd 12y ago
    I know you already realize it, but others might not, but xpdf is still "bugged" in this case. In the bug report, the missing font is substituted with a default sans-serif font (presumably DejaVu Sans or Ubuntu on Ubuntu), while in your image it is replaced by Times Roman. The spacing of the text is completely wrong in both cases, but it's just worse in the sans-serif case.
    - aw3c2 12y ago
      I didn't realise that, thanks! Sounds like it might be a good idea to collect such cases and build substitution rules for font-config.
- bsznjyewgd 12y ago
  The problem with that document (for me) is that it does not embed its fonts, and I do not have the fonts it uses (or any compatible ones) on my computer either. So, when I view it, the font gets substituted by the default sans-serif font, which has completely different (and wrong) metrics. Presumably, Adobe Reader comes with more (compatible) fonts and is able to make better substitution. In the past, when I have other documents which also don't embed their fonts, but for which I have a compatible substitution font on my computer (that Evince doesn't pick up for whatever reason), I just run it through gs and it embeds the substitution font into the result. I'm not sure this is really a bug in Evince/poppler in this case as much as a malformed document that presumes the viewer has Century Schoolbook font on their computer.
- deleted 12y ago
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- hello_asdf 12y ago
  I've been using zathura and it works quite well.
- pbhjpbhj 12y ago
  It looks like it's a font [naming/substitution] problem. This http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1363557 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1363557 fixed the display of that file for me [Kubuntu 14.04]. I installed a close font "New CenturySchlbk-Normal" and then inserted: <match target="pattern"> <test qual="any" name="family"><string>NewCenturySchlbk</string></test> <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="same"><string>NewCenturySchlbk-Normal</string></edit> </match> in to my /home/username/.config/font-manager/local.conf file. I didn't need to do anything further. Testing before with fc-match gave: user@localhost$ fc-match "New CenturySchlbk" DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book" Testing after gave: user@localhost$ fc-match "NewCenturySchlbk" NewCenturySchlbk_Normal.ttf: "NewCenturySchlbk-Normal" "Regular" Everything I tested on Okular, xpdf, The GIMP, LibreOffice, .., all gave the same results (ie this fix worked on them) except for LibreOffice which failed a lot less after the fix. Perhaps the way the creating program embedded the font was incorrect and so none of the readers good use the embedded font to render the text correctly? pdf.js did well before, better than Okular or xpdf, but better after the fix too.
- naner 12y ago
  Your primary choices in renderers are the following: - XPDF - the OG *nix PDF renderer. - Poppler (fork of xpdf). Probably most featureful, different features supported among different implementations (e.g. Evince and Okular appear to behave differently and have different feature sets). - Mupdf, newer code base, made by Ghostscript team. Only supports rendering PDFs and XPS. No fancy javascript or form support. - PDF.js via Mozilla browsers. - PDFium via Chrome-based browsers.
  - skymt 12y ago
    MuPDF claims to support forms and JavaScript as of version 1.2.
  - abrowne 12y ago
    PDF.js is not limited to Firefox. Here's a Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pdf-viewer/oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pdf-viewer/oemmndc...
- Nux 12y ago
  This is how it looks in Evince @ CentOS7 http://i.imgur.com/SIq9v4r.png http://i.imgur.com/SIq9v4r.png (including font substitution issue)
- soyiuz 12y ago
  I am a fan of [Zathura](http://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/ http://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/) from pwmt.org. Far faster at rendering large pdfs than Reader of Evince. Vim-like shortcuts as a bonus.
dozzie 12y ago
Pity, but it's a little surprise. They couldn't compile even their soft for Linux@x86_64 for several years.
- kweinber 12y ago
  If that is the crieria, then should we expect Google to drop Chrome for the Mac? That's still 32 bit.
drdaeman 12y ago
Good riddance, I guess? I believe there isn't any shortage of good PDF viewers for GNU/Linux.
- scrollaway 12y ago
  Yeah, not exactly sad about this one. PDF being an open spec, the closed source acrobat reader is completely irrelevant to the Linux world (if not entirely harmful to newcomers to linux who go and find the only PDF reader they ever knew about).
  - tobias2014 12y ago
    I still use it to fill out PDF files with forms. What other linux PDF viewer can do that? I heard that KDE/Okular can do it, is there any KDE independent software that can do it?
    - brwtx 12y ago
      I use Gimp to to edit PDF files. Works amazingly well.
    - lake99 12y ago
      I use both Okular and Google Chrome for filling PDF forms.
    - sho_hn 12y ago
      Define "KDE-independent" - Okular works fine on other Linux desktops (it's also set up as the default PDF reader on my Windows 8 install, actually).
    - aw3c2 12y ago
      Evince does it.
    - dingaling 12y ago
      None that handle digital signatures and online filing, sadly. For example UK HMRC tax returns must be done using Adobe Reader.
claudius 12y ago
Wasn’t it stuck at version 9 (or 10?) anyways, when all the other systems got 11 already?
fest 12y ago
zathura is lightweight PDF reader with vim-like keybindings and vimperator/vimium style navigation.
bricss 12y ago
I hope that there is no secret that the company is Adobe doing everything to ensure that its products were not released under Linux systems.
- fafner 12y ago
  I really wonder where this attitude from Adobe comes from. I mean in the past they seemed always close with Apple. That could have explained the attitude. But then Apple refused to ship Flash and released alternatives to Adobe products. It really seems like a bad business attitude from Adobe.
  - mpweiher 12y ago
    Adobe wasn't really that close with Apple, Adobe's customers were. Adobe wanted their customers to move to Windows.
  - flexengineer 12y ago
    What you refer to as a bad attitude from Adobe is actually the biggest antitrust and corporate bullying scam in the entire history of the Internet, courtesy Steve Jobs. If you are really interested in figuring what happened, I invite you to check this Facebook page https:www.facebook.com/OccupyHTML5. If you want my personal insider opinion on the facts, and what is wrong with both Adobe and Apple, check this posts and all its comments: https://www.facebook.com/occupyhtml5/posts/10151861946595679 https://www.facebook.com/occupyhtml5/posts/10151861946595679. If you want to know what Jobs was scared of, and why he took such extreme measure to exterminate competition to iTunes and AppStore by killing the web, despite threat of international antitrust investigation by both FTC and EU Commission, check this Facebook note: https://www.facebook.com/notes/stephane-beladaci/one-code-any-screen-develop-once-deploy-everywhere-is-a-reality/10152672812579068 https://www.facebook.com/notes/stephane-beladaci/one-code-an..., and this post: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152254219025679 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152254219025679.
qwerta 12y ago
Kind of makes sense. I do not know anyone actually using it on Linux, there are much better alternatives. Only problematic part was PDF Forms, now probably obsolete.
ausjke 12y ago
I simply run virtubox+windows under Linux for adobe-form/turbotax etc that are too hard to do under Linux anyways. Hard to be 100% Linux still, but I'm close to 99% I think.
parennoob 12y ago
The solutions here seem to be split into two camps: 1. Use Okular / Evince / Poppler / Sumatra / Zathura / whatever (actually, I think you might begin to see the problem already). 2. Use Acrobat Reader in Wine. Neither of these is going to appeal to my family members whose idea of a good time is not installing something via "Software Center" and spending ages tweaking the configuration to work properly, so they can use a half-speed version of Acrobat Reader on Windows. They will probably end up sticking with Mac or Windows. Which is perfectly fine, because no one is forcing them to use Linux. I just want to point out that stuff like this totally kills the idea of "Linux for the everyday user". First you have to offer them a lot of the stuff which they are accustomed to (a decent document editor, a decent PDF reader), then slowly increase their awareness about software freedoms. It is unfortunate that most FSF zealots end up reversing this order, and driving away the common user. Solutions? I'm not sure, maybe someone can weigh in. The best I can think of right now is for organizations like Canonical and Red Hat who might be interested in promoting Desktop Linux to pay for Adobe to release and support Acrobat on their distros. Either that, or actively put in some sort of a translation chart in the OS for common users "Acrobat <-> Evince" or such.
- ommunist 12y ago
  I upvote this. Especially the Wine option. IMHO it should be advertised that "You can run Windows programs on Linux by using Wine".
johnchristopher 12y ago
Beyond the pdf reader, what are the alternatives to the PDF format that can be shared with regular people and has the same qualities (widespread, wysiwyg, not editable, etc.) ?
- clarry 12y ago
  Some of the qualities you described are not there in PDF so I'll just name a reasonable alternative. HTML.
  - Sanddancer 12y ago
    HTML is not WYSIWYG, and it's a pain in the butt to share an html document with specialty fonts, graphics, precise print layouts, etc in it.
sciurus 12y ago
The latest version that Adobe released for Linux and Unix was Adobe Reader 9. Adobe stopped supporting it on 6/26/2013. It's disappointing that they kept providing downloads of unsupported software until now. Red Hat put out an advisory in last year that said: "Red Hat advises users to reconsider further use of Adobe Reader for Linux, as it may contain known, unpatched security issues... Red Hat will no longer provide security updates to these packages and recommends that customers not use this application on Red Hat Enterprise Linux effective immediately." http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhsa-announce/2013-October/msg00003.html http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhsa-announce/2013-October/ms...
ZenoArrow 12y ago
Does the current Windows version work using Wine?
donniezazen 12y ago
Okular[1] is the best PDF Reader on Linux. Enough said. [1]http://okular.kde.org/ http://okular.kde.org/
- farresito 12y ago
  What does it provide that other options like zathura doesn't? Just asking; no offense intended.
  - jofer 12y ago
    Mostly KDE itegration and support for a really broad array of formats. Most people probably don't use it as such, but it's more of a general document viewer. (For example, you can actually open Microsoft .ppt files with it.) It's a great pdf viewer, and has plenty of features, but so do most of the other well-known ones. I love it, but I'd probably use something else if I wasn't using KDE as my desktop environment. It's lightweight if you're already loading all of the KDE libraries, but rather heavyweight otherwise.
    - donniezazen 12y ago
      I had been using it long before I started using KDE. There aren't many PDF Viewers that could do annotations and handle 1000 page PDFs. Evince which is a premier Gnome PDF application is pretty basic.
  - donniezazen 12y ago
    I will have to try Zathura but since KDE is my choice of desktop environment Okular comes natural. Long before I was using KDE, I needed a feature full PDF viewer and I found Okular. I mostly need annotations which it does fine. I have since then never felt a need for any other PDF viewer.
    - farresito 12y ago
      Well, zathura is great if you are a vim user, since it comes with all the key bindings and you can configure it like a lot of the tools out there with a dotfile. There's also support for djvu and other formats (although some distros do not have it by default, so you might need to compile it yourself). If you are not a vim user, you are gonna be disappointed, since its major feature is the vim thing imho.
Nux 12y ago
Good riddance! I stopped using it many years ago. The default PDF reader provided by the distro is good enough for my needs.
farresito 12y ago
The people that use Linux are generally OSS enthusiasts who are not going to be willing to install a privative software. They problably didn't have that many users, and was not worth maintaining it.
pjakma 12y ago
I have some people who send me corrections via PDF annotations and notes. Neither Evince nor XPDF fully support these. Highlighted annotations particularly, Evince shows the highlight but doesn't show the annotation text (no icon to show it, hovering doesn't do anything either). I need Adobe Acrobat Reader for that. My Poppler is a bit out of date, though it's not clear to me whether more recent versions of Poppler support highlighted annotations fully: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=583377 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=583377
- danford 12y ago
  What about the firefox built-in pdf reader or google docs?
  - clarry 12y ago
    The one built into Firefox is the one that always complains it cannot display the document properly.
  - pjakma 12y ago
    Google Docs has the same behaviour for me as Evince on annoted-highlights: shows the highlight on the text, but doesn't show or provide anyway to view the associated annotation. Edit: Remove IIRC - justed tested Google Docs again and that's the behaviour.
readme 12y ago
Oh crap. I was relying on that software to play the embedded media in PDF files issued by my school. Anyone have a mirror, because I recently wiped my computer...
decafbad 12y ago
I found these files on the net. Seems legit. (I said seems) https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B0fHzt9sGi2kRzM4R1JVeER4Xzg&usp=drive_web https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B0fHzt9sGi2kRzM4R1JV...
wiseleo 12y ago
Here is one way to get it back Source: http://askubuntu.com/questions/89127/how-do-i-install-adobe-acrobat-reader http://askubuntu.com/questions/89127/how-do-i-install-adobe-... sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ http://archive.canonical.com/ $(lsb_release -sc) partner" [you can use use 'precise', 'quantal', or 'raring' instead of the '$(lsb_release -sc)' command] sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install acroread Also, Adobe still maintains an archive of all versions of Reader on their FTP site. Trivia - here is the OS2 version: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/os2/3.x/ The latest Linux release is at ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.5.5/enu/

78 points by decafbad 12y ago

Are there any Linux PDF readers that work as well? For instance I reported this bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=628920 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=628920 years ago but the example PDF I included still looks horrible in the latest Evince. So I typically keep a copy of Adobe Reader installed to deal with files like that, but I'd love to replace it with something open source.

jpgvm 12y ago
I generally find most PDFs come from the web.. so PDF.js has been more than sufficient for my needs.
aw3c2 12y ago
xpdf renders it nicely, it is anti-userfriendly and ancient though. ;) http://i.imgur.com/9FHRqio.png http://i.imgur.com/9FHRqio.png The text looks different because "Syntax Warning: Substituting font 'Times-Roman' for 'NewCenturySchlbk-Roman'". Crazy how that poppler bug is almost 10 years old and not fixed even though it seems like such an integral part of a PDF library.
- bsznjyewgd 12y ago
  I know you already realize it, but others might not, but xpdf is still "bugged" in this case. In the bug report, the missing font is substituted with a default sans-serif font (presumably DejaVu Sans or Ubuntu on Ubuntu), while in your image it is replaced by Times Roman. The spacing of the text is completely wrong in both cases, but it's just worse in the sans-serif case.
  - aw3c2 12y ago
    I didn't realise that, thanks! Sounds like it might be a good idea to collect such cases and build substitution rules for font-config.
bsznjyewgd 12y ago
The problem with that document (for me) is that it does not embed its fonts, and I do not have the fonts it uses (or any compatible ones) on my computer either. So, when I view it, the font gets substituted by the default sans-serif font, which has completely different (and wrong) metrics. Presumably, Adobe Reader comes with more (compatible) fonts and is able to make better substitution. In the past, when I have other documents which also don't embed their fonts, but for which I have a compatible substitution font on my computer (that Evince doesn't pick up for whatever reason), I just run it through gs and it embeds the substitution font into the result. I'm not sure this is really a bug in Evince/poppler in this case as much as a malformed document that presumes the viewer has Century Schoolbook font on their computer.
deleted 12y ago
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hello_asdf 12y ago
I've been using zathura and it works quite well.
pbhjpbhj 12y ago
It looks like it's a font [naming/substitution] problem. This http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1363557 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1363557 fixed the display of that file for me [Kubuntu 14.04]. I installed a close font "New CenturySchlbk-Normal" and then inserted: <match target="pattern"> <test qual="any" name="family"><string>NewCenturySchlbk</string></test> <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="same"><string>NewCenturySchlbk-Normal</string></edit> </match> in to my /home/username/.config/font-manager/local.conf file. I didn't need to do anything further. Testing before with fc-match gave: user@localhost$ fc-match "New CenturySchlbk" DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book" Testing after gave: user@localhost$ fc-match "NewCenturySchlbk" NewCenturySchlbk_Normal.ttf: "NewCenturySchlbk-Normal" "Regular" Everything I tested on Okular, xpdf, The GIMP, LibreOffice, .., all gave the same results (ie this fix worked on them) except for LibreOffice which failed a lot less after the fix. Perhaps the way the creating program embedded the font was incorrect and so none of the readers good use the embedded font to render the text correctly? pdf.js did well before, better than Okular or xpdf, but better after the fix too.
naner 12y ago
Your primary choices in renderers are the following: - XPDF - the OG *nix PDF renderer. - Poppler (fork of xpdf). Probably most featureful, different features supported among different implementations (e.g. Evince and Okular appear to behave differently and have different feature sets). - Mupdf, newer code base, made by Ghostscript team. Only supports rendering PDFs and XPS. No fancy javascript or form support. - PDF.js via Mozilla browsers. - PDFium via Chrome-based browsers.
- skymt 12y ago
  MuPDF claims to support forms and JavaScript as of version 1.2.
- abrowne 12y ago
  PDF.js is not limited to Firefox. Here's a Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pdf-viewer/oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pdf-viewer/oemmndc...
Nux 12y ago
This is how it looks in Evince @ CentOS7 http://i.imgur.com/SIq9v4r.png http://i.imgur.com/SIq9v4r.png (including font substitution issue)
soyiuz 12y ago
I am a fan of [Zathura](http://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/ http://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/) from pwmt.org. Far faster at rendering large pdfs than Reader of Evince. Vim-like shortcuts as a bonus.

dozzie 12y ago

Pity, but it's a little surprise. They couldn't compile even their soft for Linux@x86_64 for several years.

kweinber 12y ago
If that is the crieria, then should we expect Google to drop Chrome for the Mac? That's still 32 bit.

drdaeman 12y ago

Good riddance, I guess? I believe there isn't any shortage of good PDF viewers for GNU/Linux.

scrollaway 12y ago
Yeah, not exactly sad about this one. PDF being an open spec, the closed source acrobat reader is completely irrelevant to the Linux world (if not entirely harmful to newcomers to linux who go and find the only PDF reader they ever knew about).
- tobias2014 12y ago
  I still use it to fill out PDF files with forms. What other linux PDF viewer can do that? I heard that KDE/Okular can do it, is there any KDE independent software that can do it?
  - brwtx 12y ago
    I use Gimp to to edit PDF files. Works amazingly well.
  - lake99 12y ago
    I use both Okular and Google Chrome for filling PDF forms.
  - sho_hn 12y ago
    Define "KDE-independent" - Okular works fine on other Linux desktops (it's also set up as the default PDF reader on my Windows 8 install, actually).
  - aw3c2 12y ago
    Evince does it.
  - dingaling 12y ago
    None that handle digital signatures and online filing, sadly. For example UK HMRC tax returns must be done using Adobe Reader.

claudius 12y ago

Wasn’t it stuck at version 9 (or 10?) anyways, when all the other systems got 11 already?

fest 12y ago

zathura is lightweight PDF reader with vim-like keybindings and vimperator/vimium style navigation.

bricss 12y ago

I hope that there is no secret that the company is Adobe doing everything to ensure that its products were not released under Linux systems.

fafner 12y ago
I really wonder where this attitude from Adobe comes from. I mean in the past they seemed always close with Apple. That could have explained the attitude. But then Apple refused to ship Flash and released alternatives to Adobe products. It really seems like a bad business attitude from Adobe.
- mpweiher 12y ago
  Adobe wasn't really that close with Apple, Adobe's customers were. Adobe wanted their customers to move to Windows.
- flexengineer 12y ago
  What you refer to as a bad attitude from Adobe is actually the biggest antitrust and corporate bullying scam in the entire history of the Internet, courtesy Steve Jobs. If you are really interested in figuring what happened, I invite you to check this Facebook page https:www.facebook.com/OccupyHTML5. If you want my personal insider opinion on the facts, and what is wrong with both Adobe and Apple, check this posts and all its comments: https://www.facebook.com/occupyhtml5/posts/10151861946595679 https://www.facebook.com/occupyhtml5/posts/10151861946595679. If you want to know what Jobs was scared of, and why he took such extreme measure to exterminate competition to iTunes and AppStore by killing the web, despite threat of international antitrust investigation by both FTC and EU Commission, check this Facebook note: https://www.facebook.com/notes/stephane-beladaci/one-code-any-screen-develop-once-deploy-everywhere-is-a-reality/10152672812579068 https://www.facebook.com/notes/stephane-beladaci/one-code-an..., and this post: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152254219025679 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152254219025679.

qwerta 12y ago

Kind of makes sense. I do not know anyone actually using it on Linux, there are much better alternatives. Only problematic part was PDF Forms, now probably obsolete.

ausjke 12y ago

I simply run virtubox+windows under Linux for adobe-form/turbotax etc that are too hard to do under Linux anyways. Hard to be 100% Linux still, but I'm close to 99% I think.

parennoob 12y ago

The solutions here seem to be split into two camps: 1. Use Okular / Evince / Poppler / Sumatra / Zathura / whatever (actually, I think you might begin to see the problem already). 2. Use Acrobat Reader in Wine. Neither of these is going to appeal to my family members whose idea of a good time is not installing something via "Software Center" and spending ages tweaking the configuration to work properly, so they can use a half-speed version of Acrobat Reader on Windows. They will probably end up sticking with Mac or Windows. Which is perfectly fine, because no one is forcing them to use Linux. I just want to point out that stuff like this totally kills the idea of "Linux for the everyday user". First you have to offer them a lot of the stuff which they are accustomed to (a decent document editor, a decent PDF reader), then slowly increase their awareness about software freedoms. It is unfortunate that most FSF zealots end up reversing this order, and driving away the common user. Solutions? I'm not sure, maybe someone can weigh in. The best I can think of right now is for organizations like Canonical and Red Hat who might be interested in promoting Desktop Linux to pay for Adobe to release and support Acrobat on their distros. Either that, or actively put in some sort of a translation chart in the OS for common users "Acrobat <-> Evince" or such.

ommunist 12y ago
I upvote this. Especially the Wine option. IMHO it should be advertised that "You can run Windows programs on Linux by using Wine".

johnchristopher 12y ago

Beyond the pdf reader, what are the alternatives to the PDF format that can be shared with regular people and has the same qualities (widespread, wysiwyg, not editable, etc.) ?

clarry 12y ago
Some of the qualities you described are not there in PDF so I'll just name a reasonable alternative. HTML.
- Sanddancer 12y ago
  HTML is not WYSIWYG, and it's a pain in the butt to share an html document with specialty fonts, graphics, precise print layouts, etc in it.

sciurus 12y ago

The latest version that Adobe released for Linux and Unix was Adobe Reader 9. Adobe stopped supporting it on 6/26/2013. It's disappointing that they kept providing downloads of unsupported software until now. Red Hat put out an advisory in last year that said: "Red Hat advises users to reconsider further use of Adobe Reader for Linux, as it may contain known, unpatched security issues... Red Hat will no longer provide security updates to these packages and recommends that customers not use this application on Red Hat Enterprise Linux effective immediately." http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhsa-announce/2013-October/msg00003.html http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhsa-announce/2013-October/ms...

ZenoArrow 12y ago

Does the current Windows version work using Wine?

donniezazen 12y ago

Okular[1] is the best PDF Reader on Linux. Enough said. [1]http://okular.kde.org/ http://okular.kde.org/

farresito 12y ago
What does it provide that other options like zathura doesn't? Just asking; no offense intended.
- jofer 12y ago
  Mostly KDE itegration and support for a really broad array of formats. Most people probably don't use it as such, but it's more of a general document viewer. (For example, you can actually open Microsoft .ppt files with it.) It's a great pdf viewer, and has plenty of features, but so do most of the other well-known ones. I love it, but I'd probably use something else if I wasn't using KDE as my desktop environment. It's lightweight if you're already loading all of the KDE libraries, but rather heavyweight otherwise.
  - donniezazen 12y ago
    I had been using it long before I started using KDE. There aren't many PDF Viewers that could do annotations and handle 1000 page PDFs. Evince which is a premier Gnome PDF application is pretty basic.
- donniezazen 12y ago
  I will have to try Zathura but since KDE is my choice of desktop environment Okular comes natural. Long before I was using KDE, I needed a feature full PDF viewer and I found Okular. I mostly need annotations which it does fine. I have since then never felt a need for any other PDF viewer.
  - farresito 12y ago
    Well, zathura is great if you are a vim user, since it comes with all the key bindings and you can configure it like a lot of the tools out there with a dotfile. There's also support for djvu and other formats (although some distros do not have it by default, so you might need to compile it yourself). If you are not a vim user, you are gonna be disappointed, since its major feature is the vim thing imho.

Nux 12y ago

Good riddance! I stopped using it many years ago. The default PDF reader provided by the distro is good enough for my needs.

farresito 12y ago

The people that use Linux are generally OSS enthusiasts who are not going to be willing to install a privative software. They problably didn't have that many users, and was not worth maintaining it.

pjakma 12y ago

I have some people who send me corrections via PDF annotations and notes. Neither Evince nor XPDF fully support these. Highlighted annotations particularly, Evince shows the highlight but doesn't show the annotation text (no icon to show it, hovering doesn't do anything either). I need Adobe Acrobat Reader for that. My Poppler is a bit out of date, though it's not clear to me whether more recent versions of Poppler support highlighted annotations fully: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=583377 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=583377

danford 12y ago
What about the firefox built-in pdf reader or google docs?
- clarry 12y ago
  The one built into Firefox is the one that always complains it cannot display the document properly.
- pjakma 12y ago
  Google Docs has the same behaviour for me as Evince on annoted-highlights: shows the highlight on the text, but doesn't show or provide anyway to view the associated annotation. Edit: Remove IIRC - justed tested Google Docs again and that's the behaviour.

readme 12y ago

Oh crap. I was relying on that software to play the embedded media in PDF files issued by my school. Anyone have a mirror, because I recently wiped my computer...

decafbad 12y ago

I found these files on the net. Seems legit. (I said seems) https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B0fHzt9sGi2kRzM4R1JVeER4Xzg&usp=drive_web https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B0fHzt9sGi2kRzM4R1JV...

wiseleo 12y ago

Here is one way to get it back Source: http://askubuntu.com/questions/89127/how-do-i-install-adobe-acrobat-reader http://askubuntu.com/questions/89127/how-do-i-install-adobe-... sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ http://archive.canonical.com/ $(lsb_release -sc) partner" [you can use use 'precise', 'quantal', or 'raring' instead of the '$(lsb_release -sc)' command] sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install acroread Also, Adobe still maintains an archive of all versions of Reader on their FTP site. Trivia - here is the OS2 version: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/os2/3.x/ The latest Linux release is at ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.5.5/enu/