[CS-FSLUG] Adobe Reader 7.0 for Linux

[Fred A. Miller]

On Wed March 16 2005 2:15 pm, Jukka wrote:
> www.scribus.org.uk has a news-story (http://tinyurl.com/6s5e6):
>
> "After taking it for a quick spin, its a very worthy upgrade, even if
> its a big (39Mb) download. We on the Scribus team recommend all users
> upgrade. Adobe is to be commended for releasing what seems to be a
> polished and well done release which integrates nicely with modern
> Linux desktops specfic features - even including a proper .desktop
> file and menu integration in KDE and Gnome. Those who tested the beta
> already report speed and display refresh improvements. Let's hope,
> Adobe finishes the job with other language support which matches
> Win32/MacOSX."
>
> You can download both rpm and tar-ball installers:
> ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/7x/7.0/enu/AdbeRdr70_linux_enu.ta
>r.gz
> ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/7x/7.0/enu/AdobeReader_enu-7.0.0-
>1.i386.rpm
>
> I installed rpm-version and it works very well. This is so much better
> than what was available for linux before (it has also a very good
> looking interface). Look one screenshot I took while doing a search
> with a really big pdf: http://tinyurl.com/6f2r9

Thanks.....getting it now. I didn't find the file at their site....don't know 
how you found it, as the Adobe site wanted to send v5.0. :(

Fred

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