On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Robert Heller <hel...@deepsoft.com> wrote: > > Neither does Adobe Reader! I've envountered PDF files that have been > simply malformed on some level. Otherwise it is a matter of how > bleeding edge the PDF file is, along with issues like non-embeded > non-standard font references (and this includes PDF files supposedly > created by Adobe Distiller!). *I* find Adobe Reader's GUI horrible -- I > just plain do not like it. >
I only have two complaints about AR: 1) It takes forever to get going - a minute or two at startup - seriously. 2) I have a pdf that contains savable fill-in form information, and AR on CentOS refuses to work with it (it start to read the file and quits). eVince can read it, but I can't fill in the form with it. I have to use AR on Windoze to work with it. I have complained to Adobe about this, along with the fact that they don't have any decent support for their "free" products, but so far no response (duh - they think that community forums to which I cannot post are sufficient). Yes, I realize that AR is a free product, but that's no excuse. So are OOo, Mozilla and a whole slew of other, much larger scale products (e.g., CentOS), and yet they all have methods for obtaining support and reporting bugs. No, it's not worth $600 (or whatever Acrobat costs these days) for me, a broke, individual user trying to scrape by on next to no income (I can't afford the $300 scanner that comes with a free copy of Acrobat, or did, either), but that's no excuse. A good product deserves good support, and ANY software product should have a mechanism for reporting bugs. Period. Mark Hull-Richter Expert Linux/C Software Developer Registered Linux User #472807 - sign up at http://counter.li.org/ _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
