Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?

2003-07-21 Thread QingHua Wang
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

Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?

2003-07-19 Thread Paul
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.

Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?

2003-07-19 Thread Anne Wilson
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

Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?

2003-07-19 Thread aron smith
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

Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?

2003-07-19 Thread Bob Read
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

Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?

2003-07-19 Thread Anne Wilson
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

RE: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?

2003-07-19 Thread Frankie
] 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

Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?

2003-07-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
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

Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?

2003-07-19 Thread Bob Read
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

RE: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?

2003-07-19 Thread Frankie
:[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

Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?

2003-07-19 Thread Anne Wilson
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

Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?

2003-07-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
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

Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?

2003-07-19 Thread Miark
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

[newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?

2003-07-18 Thread Bob Read
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

Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?

2003-07-18 Thread 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

Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?

2003-07-18 Thread manolis
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

Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?

2003-07-18 Thread Thomas Bitschnau
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