Re: question about Acrobat

2002-03-01 Thread Petro
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 01:00:40AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Little reason to support Adobe's mindshare. Well, which other consumer software vendors have ported their one of their applications to Linux, and continued to support it even when not making a dime? Word perfect g

Re: question about Acrobat

2002-03-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Feb 28, 2002, Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Eric G. Miller" writes: > > > It appears to support text searches in the latest version. I'd still > > like a bookmarks tree myself (big documents are much easier to > > navigate). > > Exactly. I program for PalmOS, and reading s

Re: question about Acrobat

2002-02-28 Thread Dave Carrigan
"Eric G. Miller" writes: > It appears to support text searches in the latest version. I'd still > like a bookmarks tree myself (big documents are much easier to > navigate). Exactly. I program for PalmOS, and reading something like the PalmOS Programmers Reference without being able to jump aro

Re: question about Acrobat

2002-02-27 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:24:15AM +1300, Corrin Lakeland wrote: > > > hmm, why not do what you can to avoid using an application from a house > > > that, singlehandedly, led to the wholly unecessary incarceration of a > > > proven advocate of free access to information. > > Fair point, but acroba

Re: question about Acrobat

2002-02-27 Thread Corrin Lakeland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > hmm, why not do what you can to avoid using an application from a house > > that, singlehandedly, led to the wholly unecessary incarceration of a > > proven advocate of free access to information. Fair point, but acrobat supports searching and xp

Re: question about Acrobat

2002-02-26 Thread dman
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 02:32:57AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Mon, Feb 25, 2002, ben ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > On Monday 25 February 2002 09:09 pm, Nick Hastings wrote: | > > Hi, | > > | > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020226 15:58]: | > > > i have downloaded Acrobat Reade

Re: question about Acrobat

2002-02-26 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have downloaded Acrobat Reader 4.0 in gzipped tar file and installed it. but when i start it by /usr/local/Acrobat4/bin/acrobat.sh, it says it can't find installation directory. I no longer use Acrobat (mostly because of how they tried to squash freedom in general

Re: question about Acrobat

2002-02-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Feb 25, 2002, ben ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Monday 25 February 2002 09:09 pm, Nick Hastings wrote: > > Hi, > > > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020226 15:58]: > > > i have downloaded Acrobat Reader 4.0 in gzipped tar file and installed > > > it. > > > > Hmm, why not instal

Re: question about Acrobat

2002-02-26 Thread ben
On Monday 25 February 2002 09:09 pm, Nick Hastings wrote: > Hi, > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020226 15:58]: > > i have downloaded Acrobat Reader 4.0 in gzipped tar file and installed > > it. > > Hmm, why not install the .deb? > > Nick. > hmm, why not do what you can to avoid using a

Re: question about Acrobat

2002-02-25 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020226 15:58]: > i have downloaded Acrobat Reader 4.0 in gzipped tar file and installed > it. Hmm, why not install the .deb? Nick. ---- _

question about Acrobat

2002-02-25 Thread softguy
i have downloaded Acrobat Reader 4.0 in gzipped tar file and installed it. but when i start it by /usr/local/Acrobat4/bin/acrobat.sh, it says it can't find installation directory.