On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 12:05 +0100, David Sommerseth wrote:
> On 15/01/14 11:44, Jean-Michel Barbet wrote:
> > On 01/15/2014 11:20 AM, Urs Beyerle wrote:
> > 
> >> Adobe discontinued the Adobe Reader 9 for Linux in June 2013 and has not
> >> fixed and will not fix any further security issues in it. Therefore it
> >> makes totally sense to remove it from their repo.
> > 
> > Thank you Urs,
> > 
> > OK, that's clear. What are the alternatives on the SL worksation ?
> 
> I've used evince for a few years, and it's getting better and better.
> Or you got xpdf and okular (in the kdegraphics package) which is fairly
> popular too.  In addition Firefox 24 (available in SL6.3, iirc) and
> newer includes pdf.js, which displays PDFs fairly well inside the browser.
> 
> It mostly depends on your needs.  There are some features which works
> less good in the alternatives, and even a few scenarios where Adobe
> Reader seems to be the only alternative.  But I'd try out what's already
> in SL first and see if it covers your need.  Most of them are usually
> faster than Adobe Reader too.

There is still a 32-bit self-extracting binary version of Adobe Reader
on the Adobe web-site.


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Mark Whidby
Infrastructure Coordinator (Unix)
Physics/Chemistry/EAES/Mathematics Team
IT Services, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences