Acroread aka Adobe Reader

**aspergerian** · February 28th, 2013

I'm not asking a howto question. I use acroread because I've found it works better when copying an excerpt from within column of a medical.pdf.

Today, updates included acroread, and my Xubuntu machine now has Adobe Reader 9.5.4 (01/09/13). My w7 computers have a different build number, but apparently, Adobe has updated acroread for Ubuntu. (???)

**oldos2er** · February 28th, 2013

Looks like there were security updates: https://www.adobe.com/support/securi...apsb13-07.html

**aspergerian** · February 28th, 2013

Originally Posted by oldos2er

security updates: https://www.adobe.com/support/securi...apsb13-07.html

Thank you!

**oldos2er** · February 28th, 2013

Welcome!

**MadmanRB** · March 1st, 2013

Dont expect adobe to give regular handouts, they pretty much dumped Linux.
For PDF documents the in built Evince does a fair enough job, the only issue you will find is that in firefox it will open in a separate app, no big deal.

**uc50_ic4more** · March 1st, 2013

Originally Posted by MadmanRB

Dont expect adobe to give regular handouts, they pretty much dumped Linux.
For PDF documents the in built Evince does a fair enough job, the only issue you will find is that in firefox it will open in a separate app, no big deal.

The latest Firefox - 19.0 as of this writing - is the first to feature a built-in .pdf viewer.

I have used evince forever, but some folks I know have had font rendering, printing and form-filling issues. I have installed the Adobe .pdf reader and these issues have been assuaged.

**aspergerian** · March 1st, 2013

Adobe's release of Adobe Reader 9.5.4 (01/09/13) and Ubuntu's update-distribution of same suggests Adobe hasn't ceased working on at least one Linux-based version of Acroread.