Comments on: Recommendation: Stop using Adobe Acrobat Reader https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/23/recommendation-stop-using-adob/ Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:37:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Connie https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/23/recommendation-stop-using-adob/#comment-534792 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:37:17 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/23/recommendation-stop-using-adob/#comment-534792 Another vote for Foxit.

]]> By: highschoolphysics https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/23/recommendation-stop-using-adob/#comment-534791 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:12:26 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/23/recommendation-stop-using-adob/#comment-534791 I use Foxit reader. It’s small, fast, and really safe. And it’s free to boot.

Highly recommended to all.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/23/recommendation-stop-using-adob/#comment-534790 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:17:25 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/23/recommendation-stop-using-adob/#comment-534790 DuWayne: An editable PDF import would be somewhat difficult because of the fundmental nature of PDF. Having the ability to edit (as in the Adobe software) in OO would be a huge investment of code better done as a stand alone but integrated program or a major add in that you can call up if you want.

Reading a PDF seems like a good idea, but in some ways, it’s the same as reading a spread sheet. IOW, if you are in OO Writer and “open” a spreadsheet, it opens in Calc. OO could have a thusly integrated PDF reader.

Anyway, there has been a discussion of this for a while, and at one time there were plans to develop it, but they seem to have fizzled.

There is a PDF import extension project:
http://www.oooninja.com/2008/06/pdf-import-hybrid-odf-pdfs-extension-30.html

and

http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport

but I doubt this is what you are looking for.

BTW, among the various PDF readers in Linux, some are way nicer than Adobe Reader will ever be. Also, there are numerous command line utilities to convert to and from PDF and variou formats, to break a PDF document into distinct pages, combine pages, etc. etc.

]]> By: jake https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/23/recommendation-stop-using-adob/#comment-534789 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:08:13 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/23/recommendation-stop-using-adob/#comment-534789 hate acrobat with a passion, always have

I have to create PDF’s on a daily basis for text documents and very large, dynamic maps. My favorite free (windows) programs are PDF-Xchange for viewing/editing and PDFill for adding headers/footers/page numbers. Foxit is perfect if you only need to view.

]]> By: DuWayne https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/23/recommendation-stop-using-adob/#comment-534788 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:48:36 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/23/recommendation-stop-using-adob/#comment-534788 In a perfect world, OpenOffice would let you read PDFs…

]]> By: Dunc https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/23/recommendation-stop-using-adob/#comment-534787 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:48:36 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/23/recommendation-stop-using-adob/#comment-534787 Plus, Acrobat Reader (on Windows, anyway) is about the rudest, shonkiest app going. Constantly trying to update itself (and frequently throwing unhandled exceptions in the process, which is a real pain if you’ve got a debugger installed and you’re trying to do something else) and insists on a reboot whenever it’s updated, or even when you uninstall it. It’s just rubbish.

]]> By: liquidthinker https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/23/recommendation-stop-using-adob/#comment-534786 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:04:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/23/recommendation-stop-using-adob/#comment-534786 Well, the SuSE 11.1 distro I recently installed seems to have configured “evince” as the default reader for Firefox. It’s a gnome thing and so far seems to work pretty well.

]]> By: Dave Gill https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/23/recommendation-stop-using-adob/#comment-534785 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:18:32 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/23/recommendation-stop-using-adob/#comment-534785 It isn’t open source, but I’ve been using Foxit Reader for quite some time, and it works quite well – and considerably faster than Adobe.

]]> By: NewEnglandBob https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/23/recommendation-stop-using-adob/#comment-534784 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:29:49 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/23/recommendation-stop-using-adob/#comment-534784 I am glad there are alternatives. I detest anything and everything from Adobe. None of their stuff works correctly and it is all full of bugs and holes and runs slow and crashed and hangs…..

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/23/recommendation-stop-using-adob/#comment-534783 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:33:17 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/23/recommendation-stop-using-adob/#comment-534783 Skim is also a good choice for the mac.

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