aspergerian
October 14th, 2009, 03:33 PM
I do medical research, which necessitates the reading of many articles published as pdfs. I often copy a sentence or several and have found that acroread (aka adobe reader) is more functional with regard to detecting text within columns.
Today's WaPost has an article announcing (yet another) adobe reader security patch - for 29 problems. The new adobe is 9.1.3 and is available for MS, MAC, and UNIX.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/10/adobe_plugs_critical_reader_ac.html?hpid=sec-tech
Adobe offers an "other versions" url, wherein deb version can be selected.
http://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/
I just did that, the install worked well, and now my Hardy Heron netbook is running acroread 9.1.2 - ie, one of the problem versions which 9.1.3 is to have fixed.
I'm not sure why I'm posting this lamentation - perhaps I wonder if the Ubuntu process can help Adobe do better with its updates for Linux.
Today's WaPost has an article announcing (yet another) adobe reader security patch - for 29 problems. The new adobe is 9.1.3 and is available for MS, MAC, and UNIX.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/10/adobe_plugs_critical_reader_ac.html?hpid=sec-tech
Adobe offers an "other versions" url, wherein deb version can be selected.
http://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/
I just did that, the install worked well, and now my Hardy Heron netbook is running acroread 9.1.2 - ie, one of the problem versions which 9.1.3 is to have fixed.
I'm not sure why I'm posting this lamentation - perhaps I wonder if the Ubuntu process can help Adobe do better with its updates for Linux.