On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 12:05 +0100, David Sommerseth wrote: > On 15/01/14 11:44, Jean-Michel Barbet wrote: > > On 01/15/2014 11:20 AM, Urs Beyerle wrote: > > > >> Adobe discontinued the Adobe Reader 9 for Linux in June 2013 and has not > >> fixed and will not fix any further security issues in it. Therefore it > >> makes totally sense to remove it from their repo. > > > > Thank you Urs, > > > > OK, that's clear. What are the alternatives on the SL worksation ? > > I've used evince for a few years, and it's getting better and better. > Or you got xpdf and okular (in the kdegraphics package) which is fairly > popular too. In addition Firefox 24 (available in SL6.3, iirc) and > newer includes pdf.js, which displays PDFs fairly well inside the browser. > > It mostly depends on your needs. There are some features which works > less good in the alternatives, and even a few scenarios where Adobe > Reader seems to be the only alternative. But I'd try out what's already > in SL first and see if it covers your need. Most of them are usually > faster than Adobe Reader too.
There is still a 32-bit self-extracting binary version of Adobe Reader on the Adobe web-site. -- Mark Whidby Infrastructure Coordinator (Unix) Physics/Chemistry/EAES/Mathematics Team IT Services, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences