Acrobat reader 7.0 is out

[Matt Price]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:31:49PM -0500, j Mak wrote:
> Acrobat 7.0 for linux is out. I've just installed it
> on warty and it works like a dream. Fast like a
> heartbeat.

I agree with the OP that the new acrobat is by far the prettiest and
most functional of the pdf readers; and with the critics, that its
non-free status is a major impediment to using it (not just for
practical reasons:  for instance, there's no reason to expect a port
to other architectures -- even poular ones like ppc -- any time
soon).  But I think that the whole acrobat vs. evince debate misses
the point that the REAL missing functionality has been, for a long
time now, a suitable pdf editor.  One is finally under development --
flpsed (http://www.ecademix.com/JohannesHofmann/#flpsed).  It's by no
means perfect, but it's improving by leaps and bounds, and the
capacity to save my filled-in forms has been a livesaver.  

So I'd sooner recommend folks to help test/develop flpsed than evince
-- evince is nice, but we already have tools that do everything it
does, while flpsed adds a much-sought-after new capacity to the Linux
toolkit. 

Matt

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