Everyone else was talking about the full version of Acrobat which interfaces
directly with Word. The reader is simply that - a means of reading industry
standard PDF files. The only connection with Word is that Reader version 7
will allow you to insert single page PDFs as objects into a document.
The reader can, with some versions of Internet Explorer, integrate with
Explorer to open PDF files from the internet directly in Explorer, otherwise
it acts as an independent application.
It's a free download which doesn't sound so greedy to me - and if you have a
slow internet connection which means that large files take forever to
download, you will find the reader on no end of magazine cover discs and
software installation discs (to allow you to read the software
documentation, which also increasingly is supplied in PDF format).
PDF is an industry standard format used increasingly as the best means of
providing documents over the internet. If you are ever going to read these
forms, then you are not going to be able to avoid using the reader.
Adobe may have its failings, but the PDF format and the means of reading it
are not amongst them.
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Yes, the reader is what I meant!
Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
You downloaded Acrobat? Are you sure you aren't talking about the
Adobe Reader?
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Completely agree. It is arrogant in the extreme to interfere with
someone's work in another application. Have just tried downloading
acrobat after a complete disk reload. It takes forever, and
*after* it has done everything says that it can't deal with my
version of IE (which is adequate for everything else). However, it
put an unusable icon on my desktop, which was the devil to remove.
There was no uninstall program as such and files are all over the
place. The earlier versions of the product were OK. But now I
will never use an adobe product again, and all my colleagues know
not to bother me with any PDF files. Greed and stupidity will ruin
any product in the end.
cfscheel
Hi Klaus,
Even if they have fixed it, I still protest:
out of principle, no one should invade my WORD setup
without my permission.
It is no less serious than a physical break-and-entry.
- BTW I am not all that impressed
by the Adobe programs anyway.
On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 22:05:47 +0200, Klaus Linke
wrote:
Hi C.F.,
Adobe has supposedly fixed it in an update:
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/331259.html
Not sure if the fix works reliably.
Klaus
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