official pdf reader

[Bob Nielsen]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 10:43:53AM -0800, Hudson Delbert J Contr 61 CS/SCBN wrote:
> 
> thanks zer0halo,
> 
> 	for answering the question i asked.
> 
> 	i cant believe how many whiny winblows-type sounding user i hear
> 
> ----Original Message-----
> From: zer0halo [mailto:zerohalo at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 10:27 AM
> To: Hudson Delbert J Contr 61 CS/SCBN
> Cc: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: official pdf reader
> 
> 
> Actually Acrobat Reader 6.0 is not available for Linux. The version
> available on the Adobe website (if you actually do the download) is
> 5.0.9. It does work on Ubuntu though--it's ugly, but functional, and
> displays PDFs correctly which gpdf does not. It also displays comments
> made in a PDF (using Adobe Acrobat), which xpdf/gpdf/ggv do not. It
> probably can't be included in Ubuntu for legal reasons, but it's
> probably the best PDF reader available for Linux.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 12:06:43 -0800, Hudson Delbert J Contr 61 CS/SCBN
> <Delbert.Hudson at losangeles.af.mil> wrote:
> > possibly a dumb question as i've never had a problem reading pdf's on a linux box,
> > is there a reason that acrobat 6.0 for linux from the ADOBE site won't run ontop
> > of ubuntu?
> > 
> > because one can download it for free from adobe.com
> > 
> > asking 'cuz  i dont know.
> > 
> > ~piranha
I don't know about warty, but the acroread package is available in 
multiverse for hoary.