Although Adobe's installers do not prevent Reader and Acrobat from
being installed in parallel, I MOST STRONGLY RECOMMEND AGAINST
such installations. Unless you are very technically sophisticated,
you are likely not to get the desired results when trying to
maintain such an installation.
Or before you do that, you may want to clarify and question Mike's
opinion on version compatibility, which I think is different than
Adobe's.
Mike's take is that Acrobat and Reader interact in some way that can
cause problems. And I disagree. As far as I know, Adobe has always
recommended that
Mike's take is that Acrobat and Reader interact in some way that can
cause problems. And I disagree...
Reader is a separate product that doesn't conflict or inter-operate
with Acrobat binaries
Art, I could swear that I've heard Dov say there are possible issues, not
only with multiple
Austin Meredith wrote:
Acrobat Pro 9 is just being released. Since we presently distill our
FM8 files into PDFs with Acrobat8 -- should we upgrade immediately to
Acrobat9, or should we wait for the dust to settle?
Upgrading to a new version of a tool just because it exists has never made
Acrobat 9 was just announced and has NOT been released. The projected
release date is sometime shortly before July.
For the record, in terms of interoperability with FrameMaker, Acrobat 9
provides no new Distiller features, but should be fully compatible with
all versions of FrameMaker that were
The unexplained crashes we get are of two sorts. One sort of crash is
the one we get in Acrobat Pro 8, during the process of distillation,
and then when we repeat our procedure, the distillation succeeds
without any further problem. The other sort of crash is the one we
get in the Adobe
