Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?
You can go to the website of Acrobat and find there a version for Unix(Linux). This version works well. Sometime some special symbols can not be displayed correctly with xpdf, but they have no problems with Acrobat reader. HTH. Qinghua Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?
On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 01:57, manolis wrote: Adobe Acrobat can also edit pdf files. As far as I know Xpdf and ghostview are just pdf viewers like acrobat reader. koppermind As I understand it, pdf files are regarded as more secure for archiving, etc. as they can't (readily)be edited. Once converted to pdf they stay that way. However, you could probably use something like gocr to convert to text then edit, before converting back with ghostscript or kword. Graphics would be a problem though. Paul M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?
On Friday 18 Jul 2003 10:05 pm, Bob Read wrote: Are there any good ways of working (heavily) with Adobe Acrobat in Linux? Bob - I'm not a heavy user of Acrobat, but I have installed the full Acrobat 4.0 under Win4Lin, and it appears to be working well. I opened one existing file and imported a picture, and then opened a .pdf which I had created with Serif PagePlus 8+PDF and highlighted areas of text. The files save OK. If you want me to do anything in particular to test it for you please mail me off-list. BTW - I am using the PagePlus as a combination DTP and pdf creator for Parish Magazines. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?
On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 01:42, Paul wrote: On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 01:57, manolis wrote: Adobe Acrobat can also edit pdf files. As far as I know Xpdf and ghostview are just pdf viewers like acrobat reader. koppermind As I understand it, pdf files are regarded as more secure for archiving, etc. as they can't (readily)be edited. Once converted to pdf they stay that way. However, you could probably use something like gocr to convert to text then edit, before converting back with ghostscript or kword. Graphics would be a problem though. Paul M. Could be right never tried it with graphics __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?
Anne, thanks for your detailed response. My concern is for a friend of ours who runs a (very successful) one-woman advertising business. She is fed up with the, inherent problems with XP, 2000 etc. And is just digging out from her second virus problem this year. She is now ready to consider Linux, and I want to have as many answers ready for her as possible. (I'm hoping to find someone in the Rhode Island area who has the expertise to make this happen smoothly.) Again, thank you, Bob Anne Wilson wrote: (snip) Bob - I'm not a heavy user of Acrobat, but I have installed the full Acrobat 4.0 under Win4Lin, and it appears to be working well. I opened one existing file and imported a picture, and then opened a .pdf which I had created with Serif PagePlus 8+PDF and highlighted areas of text. The files save OK. If you want me to do anything in particular to test it for you please mail me off-list. BTW - I am using the PagePlus as a combination DTP and pdf creator for Parish Magazines. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?
On Saturday 19 Jul 2003 2:22 pm, Bob Read wrote: Anne, thanks for your detailed response. My concern is for a friend of ours who runs a (very successful) one-woman advertising business. She is fed up with the, inherent problems with XP, 2000 etc. And is just digging out from her second virus problem this year. She is now ready to consider Linux, and I want to have as many answers ready for her as possible. (I'm hoping to find someone in the Rhode Island area who has the expertise to make this happen smoothly.) Again, thank you, Bob Win4Lin requires a windows licence and install disks, and you are running a virtual machine under linux. All peripherals are controlled by the linux drivers, so if it works with linux it works for win4lin. I run windows98, and it's well-nigh crash-proof! Win4Lin is not free, but it's not expensive, and NeTraverse have an excellent support team - I have even had a response on Sunday evening. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?
No... A virus is just a program like any other.. If you are running win98 inside linux, and windows runs a virus, it can do anything it could do if windows was running on its own. The only difference is that it can't trash your linux install. can still trash the windows install though.. As I said, a virus is a program, and if a program couldn't run in win4lin windows it would be useless... regards Franki http://htmlfixit.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Saturday, 19 July 2003 10:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux? On Saturday 19 Jul 2003 3:15 pm, Bob Read wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: / Win4Lin requires a windows licence and install disks, and you are running a virtual machine under linux. All peripherals are controlled by the linux drivers, so if it works with linux it works for win4lin. I run windows98, and it's well-nigh crash-proof! Win4Lin is not free, but it's not expensive, and NeTraverse have an excellent support team - I have even had a response on Sunday evening. Anne Does running Win98 under Linux (Win4Lin) still provide the virus protection of Linux? I'm not realy clear on that. It sounds good. Bob Yes - you are still running linux, and all the processes of linux. The windows bit is a layer on top. Personally I play safe and never access the Internet from the windows layer, though. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?
On Saturday 19 July 2003 17:01, Anne Wilson wrote: Nope, you still have to be carefull! I'm guessing that HarM means that the windows install could still be infected, and I guess that's so, but if you keep all the Internet activity to outside of windows you should be safe. The nice thing is that it is so easy to do. |I run Win4Lin almost full-screen, so that I can just see the status bar below it. I switch back and forth as often as necessary. I can keep my mail program open while I'm working on the windows app, and I feel quite safe. Of course, you still need to use common sense. No use inviting trouble ;-) Anne You're right, that is what I mean. Personally I like using win4lin for testing cross platform apps and some games for the kids. Alas lately I had to revive IExplorer because mozilla doesn't handle the javascripts well, that my (online) bank uses. Frankly Moz never has, where netscape (v4) did:o( And the wonderful Calypso mailer for my (slow)GSM connection aboard ship is another reason. Downloading messages selectively after checking the headers is a real (financial) life saver. I think what linux will do, is stop a virus/trojan using stealthy backdoors to get out and multiply or express itself. Anyway it's easy enough to delete the win folder in the home directory and replace it with a back up or a fresh one, if one thinks it's infected:o) -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?
I see. Then if we kept all email, browsers, address books etc. out of the Windows layer, then we should be fairly immune? Bob Frankie wrote: No... A virus is just a program like any other.. If you are running win98 inside linux, and windows runs a virus, it can do anything it could do if windows was running on its own. The only difference is that it can't trash your linux install. can still trash the windows install though.. As I said, a virus is a program, and if a program couldn't run in win4lin windows it would be useless... regards Franki http://htmlfixit.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?
well yes, but if you are on an internal network.. you might want to limit your filesharing as well.. Many virus's now will copy themselves to any network share that the infected computer had access to. rgds Franki http://htmlfixit.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob Read Sent: Saturday, 19 July 2003 11:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux? I see. Then if we kept all email, browsers, address books etc. out of the Windows layer, then we should be fairly immune? Bob Frankie wrote: No... A virus is just a program like any other.. If you are running win98 inside linux, and windows runs a virus, it can do anything it could do if windows was running on its own. The only difference is that it can't trash your linux install. can still trash the windows install though.. As I said, a virus is a program, and if a program couldn't run in win4lin windows it would be useless... regards Franki http://htmlfixit.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?
On Saturday 19 Jul 2003 4:40 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Saturday 19 July 2003 17:01, Anne Wilson wrote: Nope, you still have to be carefull! I'm guessing that HarM means that the windows install could still be infected, and I guess that's so, but if you keep all the Internet activity to outside of windows you should be safe. The nice thing is that it is so easy to do. |I run Win4Lin almost full-screen, so that I can just see the status bar below it. I switch back and forth as often as necessary. I can keep my mail program open while I'm working on the windows app, and I feel quite safe. Of course, you still need to use common sense. No use inviting trouble ;-) Anne You're right, that is what I mean. Personally I like using win4lin for testing cross platform apps and some games for the kids. Alas lately I had to revive IExplorer because mozilla doesn't handle the javascripts well, that my (online) bank uses. Frankly Moz never has, where netscape (v4) did:o( And the wonderful Calypso mailer for my (slow)GSM connection aboard ship is another reason. Downloading messages selectively after checking the headers is a real (financial) life saver. I think what linux will do, is stop a virus/trojan using stealthy backdoors to get out and multiply or express itself. Anyway it's easy enough to delete the win folder in the home directory and replace it with a back up or a fresh one, if one thinks it's infected:o) Even better - if you do a tar of the win directory when you know all is installed and working well, it's as good as doing a partition image, so you can reinstall to exactly where you were very quickly. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?
On Saturday 19 July 2003 23:08, Anne Wilson wrote: Even better - if you do a tar of the win directory when you know all is installed and working well, it's as good as doing a partition image, so you can reinstall to exactly where you were very quickly. Anne Yeah, on top of that if you make a habit of saving important stuff in the mydata folder you don't loose anything out of there either:o) If it weren't for my gps navigation programs (vector maps!) I wouldn't dream of double booting. Actually windows is quite good at that.It'll even run those programs happily on a 486. I had a compaq pressario dedicated to do just that(despite the small screen), but I lent it to a collegea and never seen it since. -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?
You can mount non-Win4Lin directories as drives in Win4Lin so that files are available to both Win4Lin, Linux, and/or dual-boot systems. I do that so that my data drive is available to Linux, Win4Lin, and XP which I dual-boot to on occasion to play games. (Win4Lin makes a default drive D: Mydata that is just a folder in your Linux home directory called mydata.) If you ran some virus code in Win4Lin that wiped drives or destroyed data randomly, your data from on the mounted filesystems would be at risk. But yes, the best thing to do to minimize such risk is perform all e-mail and Internet activity on the Linux side. Miark On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 11:57:38 -0400, Bob Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see. Then if we kept all email, browsers, address books etc. out of the Windows layer, then we should be fairly immune? Bob Frankie wrote: No... A virus is just a program like any other.. If you are running win98 inside linux, and windows runs a virus, it can do anything it could do if windows was running on its own. The only difference is that it can't trash your linux install. can still trash the windows install though.. As I said, a virus is a program, and if a program couldn't run in win4lin windows it would be useless... regards Franki http://htmlfixit.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?
Are there any good ways of working (heavily) with Adobe Acrobat in Linux? Bob -- Bob Read // Registered Linux user #287118 http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/b/e/bestill.htm Soli Deo Gloria-Solus Christus-Sola Gratia-Sola Fide-Sola Scriptura The Church of The Master [Baptist] Providence, Rhode Island http://users.ids.net/~bobread/cotm.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?
On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 14:05, Bob Read wrote: Are there any good ways of working (heavily) with Adobe Acrobat in Linux? Bob -- Bob Read // Registered Linux user #287118 http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/b/e/bestill.htm Soli Deo Gloria-Solus Christus-Sola Gratia-Sola Fide-Sola Scriptura The Church of The Master [Baptist] Providence, Rhode Island http://users.ids.net/~bobread/cotm.htm Bob As Far as I Know Acrobat is not really necessary if you are using mandrake you have xpdf and ghostview also most of your applications will work with .pdf files (postscript is linux's native tounge. __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?
Adobe Acrobat can also edit pdf files. As far as I know Xpdf and ghostview are just pdf viewers like acrobat reader. koppermind 19 2003 00:33, / aron smith : On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 14:05, Bob Read wrote: Are there any good ways of working (heavily) with Adobe Acrobat in Linux? Bob -- Bob Read // Registered Linux user #287118 http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/b/e/bestill.htm Soli Deo Gloria-Solus Christus-Sola Gratia-Sola Fide-Sola Scriptura The Church of The Master [Baptist] Providence, Rhode Island http://users.ids.net/~bobread/cotm.htm Bob As Far as I Know Acrobat is not really necessary if you are using mandrake you have xpdf and ghostview also most of your applications will work with .pdf files (postscript is linux's native tounge. __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enter the fields of battle at ... http://www.kingsofchaos.com/page.php?id=795528 ___ There are 10 types of humans. Those who understand computers, and those who don't. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?
Define working (heavily) with Adobe Acrobat in Linux! Greez, Thomas B. On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 23:05, Bob Read wrote: Are there any good ways of working (heavily) with Adobe Acrobat in Linux? Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
