Acrobat Reader for Linux

Posted At : September 15, 2007 2:13 PM | Posted By : Oliver Merk
Related Categories: Linux/Ubuntu

Kudos to Adobe on their recent release of the Acrobat Reader 8.1.1 for Linux. I've tried previous versions and they were buggy and slow to the point of being completely unusable.

With this new version, startup time is 2 seconds on my modest P-IV 3GHz Kubuntu box. Text display is incredibly clear on my LCD monitor and zoom rendering is very snappy. And best of all, it's very stable.

I'm happy to see Adobe acknowledging Linux as a desktop platform. I'd like to see some of their other software make the leap some day...

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Mike Henke's Gravatar Thanks for the heads up! Installed the deb on my laptop running Ubuntu.
# Posted By Mike Henke | 9/15/07 3:30 PM
Jim Priest's Gravatar Good deal! Finally nice to see Linux getting some Adobe love :)
# Posted By Jim Priest | 9/15/07 5:03 PM
Mike Kelp's Gravatar Great news.

Did you guys also notice, the flash team already got OpenGL rendering support for the H.264 video in Flash player as well? The last flash update (moviestar) was at the exact same time for windows, mac, and linux, except lacking hardware rendering support for linux, but it wasn't long after. :-)

Mike.
# Posted By Mike Kelp | 9/15/07 7:16 PM
Oliver Merk's Gravatar Hey Mike,
Is moviestar out of beta yet? Great that the Linux version is keeping up with the other releases!
# Posted By Oliver Merk | 9/15/07 7:31 PM
finance's Gravatar I tested it - it's really cool! thanx for the sharing.
# Posted By finance | 4/6/08 12:21 PM
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