Thank you, Adobe Reader 9

[notauser]

It's a real disaster that Adobe Reader sucks so much. PDF is a wonderful document format - other readers open it in seconds and it works on everything (including Linux, OS X and most phones). But thanks to Adobe if you ever send a PDF file to a windows user you get a five minute rant about how much PDF sucks and can you send it as a wonderful, efficient docx instead :/

[markbao]

Yeah. PDF is awesome. Acrobat Reader isn't.

[eru]

http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/why-not-pdf.html

Synopsis: PS or PS.gz is even better than pdf.

[JesseAldridge]

And suddenly Stallman doesn't sound so crazy.

[markbao]

Mac OS X Leopard users:

[spacebar]

[saurabh]

Now Linux users can too! http://sourceforge.net/projects/gloobus

[peakok]

Don't forget to get Foxit reader if you don't have it yet : http://www.foxitsoftware.com/

[markbao]

Woah, since when did Foxit Reader become not free?

[pchivers]

Is it safe to get it for free through the TrialPay offer, or am I going to get spammed/abused for going this route?

[prakash]

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2008/07/04/adobe-9

[apu]

Are there any linux tools to mark-up/comment-on PDFs? I'm often forced to use the windows version of Acrobat to make and view edits on a document, because I haven't found any linux tools that will even display comments (let alone edit them).

[jauco]

http://annotations.diariolinux.com/

[dizz]

Mac: <Spacebar> or Preview or indeed Skim... slim and functional, thank you! :-)

[lpgauth]

How can it possibly need 210 MB?

[trajan]

There is a lot of support for niche features (3D, etc) pushed into the base reader because it provides a significant business advantage to Adobe.

For example, they stand to benefit tremendously if a government agency decides to go with PDF as their document review format over Autodesk's DWF. The fact that the average consumer already has everything they need to use these solutions is a big bullet point in their favor.

They don't stand to lose much if some picky internet folk (not criticizing - I'm one too) decide to use a free alternative because Acrobat's too heavy.

[froo]

Umm, they needed more room to put in more backdoors?

Dunno really, I'm still trying to comprehend that myself.

[mullr]

Might be the recommended amount - it probably wants some space for a disk cache.

[chaostheory]

on the bright side it's good news for AIR developers since AIR is part of this bundle

[sant0sk1]

another satisfied customer: http://gusmueller.com/blog/archives/2008/07/adobe_reader_9_i...

[st3fan]

What cracks me up is the ReadMe.html that is being installed next to the application. Do they have so little faith in their own PDF format that they decided to use an HTML file?

[lst]

Thinking of it: so PDF maybe stands for (Hidden) Proprietary Document Format?

(In the sense of: you will never ever be able to desire all of our features we are continuously adding to our Take-Over-The-World-Document-Format?)

I'm confused.

[nailer]

PDF is an open spec. Adobe's viewer sucking is a separate issue.