Adobe Acrobat 6 Forum

Al the comments below by Gendo and others reflect precisely my feelings. I am a biology professor and I use Linux for my work in genetics because the statistical tools available for this OS are great. On the other hand, we scientists have to be able to share information accurately and effectively and no program does that as well as Adobe Acrobat Professional 6 (not the reader, the professional makes pdfs the reader only reads them, as it has been remarked before). This comment regards Adobe Acrobat Professional 6, the reader is available for linux already without need for Crossover Office support. I know at least 50 people that would benefit from the availability of Adobe Acrobat Professional 6 on thei Linux platforms. Adobe Acrobat Professional 6 is an exceptional tool that allows anybody to manage images and text together like no other program does, especially on Linux. Please consider supporting it.

Professor,

If you're not already a CX Office owner, why not pledge to buy a copy if it is supported. The pledge system was setup for people to be able to say 'this is worth a copy of CX Office for me'. When a large number of professionals stood up and yelled with votes and pledges that they wanted Lotus Notes support, they got Lotus Notes support.

Mike

Try Scribus , its a very fine tool that can make publications and produce solid pdf files with a lot of features. www.scribus.net

How can I contact you about your need for Acrobat on Linux?

Our company uses Adobe Acrobat quite extensively for composing, annotating, editing and reading PDF files. Acrobat 6.0 and higher also allows one to include and play movies which we use quite extensively (Adobe Reader 7.0 for Linux does not include the required plugin to play movies that the Windows and Mac version has. A license for developing a plugin for Adobe Reader cost $1,000). Currently, most of these features are not available with any single or combination of software and/or tools for Linux.

I wouldn't mind pledging for this project but, based on what I read in this forum, it seems it won't be a priority. How much money would one have to pledge to bring the Acrobat 6.0 project to the front burner?

As an alternative, we've been considering hiring a programmer to add some of these features to XPDF. Please contact me anyone who is interested and in serious need of running this type of software under Linux.

Please e-mail me at cbrnaut@hotmail.com

Best Regards

Scribus cannot import PDF files created with Adobe Acrobat 6.0 or higher (I've tried since I needed to be able to annotate PDF files created with Acrobat). Our company has a need for that.