Adobe Acrobat 6 Forum

I tried to install Adobe Acrobat Professional 6 under Linux Mandrake 10 official. The installation failed with a message saying that "This OS is not supported. Windows 2000 or Xp are needed for this program. Installation aborted." Or something very similar. I really find it idiotic that iTunes, a software with no professional value whatsoever, gets support while a program like Adobe Acrobat Pro, which is the standard for document exchange worldwide, is considered uninteresting by the codeweavers team. I talked to them and they couldn't even distinguish between Adobe Acrobat 6 pro and Adobe Acrobat Reader. There is a linux version for the reader and the pdf reading plugin is in any linux distro so they really don't know what they are talking about. I must say CXoffice was one of the worst investiments of the last year for my company and I will be convinced it is until its team shapes up and starts supporting serious and useful software like Adobe Acrobat Pro instead of idiocies like trillian (I mean really, why??? Why should I emulate a crappy windows instant messanging software when any linux distro has Kopete that does exactly the same thing??) and iTunes.. please.

Gendo,

If you point your web browser over at the Adobe Reader 6.0 C4 entry (despite it being a windows app with better Linux alternatives - bare with me), it includes instructions to get Reader 6.0 installed and running. These instructions will probably work on Adobe Acrobat 6.0, though I havn't personally tried.

When installing as an unsupported application, change the 'Windows version for this application' to 'Windows Millenium'. Complete the install. Open your favorite text editor, point it at ~/.cxoffice/dotwine/config and add

[AppDefaults\\AcroRd32.exe\\Version]
"Windows" = "win2k"

This was tested on Adobe 6.0.1. The icons are still messed up, but otherwise appears to handle basic PDF opening and viewing without issue.

You'll need to change the executable name for the AppDefaults\\\\Version, but otherwise the directions should be usable.

As usual you ppl are so ignorant it's not even funny. As I said before I am talking about ADOBE ACROBAT PROFESSIONAL 6, not Adobe acrobat reader (6). There is a reader version made for Linux, so we wouldn't have to use CXoffice for it. Adobe Acrobat Professional 6 is a program that MAKES pdfs, and doesn't only read them. As the description of this app says it is a program that "Creates internationally standard PDF Documents, recognized on all platforms for universal WYSIWYG" and doesn't just READ them. That's the main difference. As I said before there is embedded support for pdf reading in every linux distro. Read accurately before posting.

Gendo

I can assure you we understand the difference between Acrobat Reader and Acrobat Pro just fine. We are working on iTunes because this is the most popular app voted on by users - probably because of the music store.

Have you tried the builtin "print to pdf" support in KDE? I'm using KDE 3.2.2 and it works pretty well. If that's not quite what you're looking for, OpenOffice also has the ability to export as a pdf. Open an MS Office or OpenOffice document and export as pdf.

Hei Gendoo
Could you maybe come down with your tone and be a little be more friendly?
Why are you so angry? If you want to help let acrobat 6 (not the reader) running under CX why do you not vote & pledge for it or maybe become an advocate & help.
That would be the best. The guys here are working a lot to make all apps running.
Acrobat is a professional Product for Win & Mac. Adobe has no interests to make it run under Linux, why should they. Adobe is leaving always more the Mac Plattform, what should Mac users say.

So help here to make Acrobat Running. That would be great.

And for all other guys: Help the community, not only request this & this feature but do nothing.... ok