[users] Acroread package - never updated?

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

Hello, Todd, Margo & Bill,

I am not sure if you contacted me off-list by purpose, but anyway, here
is my collective reply.

On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 06:45 -0500, RpmForge4Bill wrote:

> I've noticed the same performance differential on my CentOS 4 and 5 systems.

That's fun. At least it tells me that I am not an exception. Thanks.

> I tried out 8. It has print-related problems. The voice reader is not 
> well done (IMO) and fails to finish read full paragraphs. I also backed 
> down to 7 and have been using it a long time quite happily.

I have installed latest Acrobat 7 and it's pretty good. I had to patch
the acroread shell-script by hand though because there was an obscure
sed-related syntax error, preventing it from run, but since that's done
only once I can tolerate this.

I guess if it were packaged by RPMForge it would just work without any
post-install manual patching involved.

On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 17:20 -0800, Todd and Margo Chester wrote:

> Not to make a stupid comment, but there is a new RPM for
> Acrobat Reader out on Adobe's site:
> 
>      $ ls -ag AdobeReader*
>      -rw-r--r-- 1 users 49491078 Feb 14 20:58
>       AdobeReader_enu-8.1.2-1.i486.rpm
> 
> And it is only 50 MB.

I think he just meant that anything binary proprietary and > 20 Mbs
can't be tolerated and is not worth the efforts to maintain <g>. This is
perfectly understandable though it does not make our lives easier.

Thanks,
 
-- 
Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev