Upgrade to Document (pdf) Reader to enable handling of XBRL documents

[Andrew]

On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 16:09 -0700, NoOp wrote:

> I'm confused... 1) why would Scott point you to downloading and
> installing manually when acroread 9.3.2 is available from the partner
> repository, and 2) why did you not install via the canonical partner
> repository? Adobe Reader (acroread) 9.3.2 is available from the repository:
> 
> http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/acroread/
> acroread_9.3.2-karmic1_amd64.deb 14-Apr-2010 06:04 	 61M
> acroread_9.3.2-karmic1_i386.deb	14-Apr-2010 06:04 	 61M
> 
> I _highly_ recommend that you _uninstall_ the manually installed version
> and install the repo version. That way you will automatically be
> notified of any updated versions in the future. As it stands now, you'll
> be stuck with the manually installed version until you check yourself
> from Adobe. Given the slew of security issues with Adobe products
> lately, I'd opt to keep my system updated from the partner repository.
> 
> 
Actually I installed it via Synaptic Package Manager - I was a bit
confused about the distinction between that and Ubuntu Software Centre
because I couldn't find acroread in the latter. So I hope I've now
installed it correctly and will indeed be notified of any updated
versions.

Many thanks,
Andy