[users] Acroread package - never updated?

[MHR]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Hugo van der Kooij
<hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org> wrote:
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>  Dag Wieers wrote:
>  | On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
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>  |> I've just installed acroread from RPMForge
>  |> ( http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/acroread/ ). I've got version 5
>  |> which is outdated by almost 4 years. Versions 7 and 8 are available from
>  |> Adobe
>  |> ( http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2_allversions.html ). Is
>  |> it possible to upgrade the packages at RPMForge accordingly?
>  |
>  | Technically it is possible. But practically it is not. The sheer size of
>  | acrobat reader is just too big to offer it for all the distributions, that
>  | is why I stopped updating it and I just have (an) outdated nosrc package
>  | that people can use to build it themselves.
>  |
>  | Sorry, but I do not understand why a PDF reader needs to be 100MB in size
>  | and I am not interested in wasting my diskspace and bandwidth to promote
>  | acroread in its current form.
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>  Given the amount of alternatives I wouldn't bother. One can use kpdf or
>  evidence for example as alternatives.
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I rather like the power that AR gives, but version 8 is so screwed up
I backed down to version 7 (for Linux, both).  The only new feature
that was nice was that it finally integrated into SeaMonkey (and, I'm
guessing, Firefox), but this was grossly outweighed by its horrendous
giant leap backwards in print capabilities (won't scale, won't orient
properly, prints landscape PDFs in portrait no matter what...).

Just my $0.02.

mhr