On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 08:09:03AM +0000, Damian Ivanov wrote:
Btw. I tested the newest adobe reader with wine. The installer hangs, I extracted the content of the *exe and ran AcroRd32 which worked so the GUI is ok but actually I did not manage to open a .pdf with it, I get an error which I suspect is because I skipped the installation.
But there is another free windows pdf reader called foxit which does all that (signing, printing, all the forms). Just tried it. Download, install, start, editing pdf. No problem with wine.
Thanks for beeing constructive. Would you mind to create some wiki page, which can contain all those information regarding PDF readers (incl wine section)? Regards Michal Vyskocil
2013/11/8 Michal Hrusecky
: Brian K. White - 21:03 7.11.13 wrote:
On 11/7/2013 8:31 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
I think we ought to keep acroread in the distro simply because it's about usability. The current suggestions:
a) download it from adobe yourself b) use something else
are not good enough. If (a) was a real solution, why are we building building a distro at all. (b) is not a solution because there is no 100% replacement for acroread.
By removing acroread, we are sacrificing critical usability because of a rule about unmaintained software. I suggest we reconsider and wait until the alternatives have caught up. Once we have a mature plug-compatible alternative, we can remove acroread.
package up a download-and-install-the-fly script
surely acroread is no more unmaintained than microsoft true type fonts from 15 years ago?
But software that renders them is maintained ;-)
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