[MLUG - DISCUSSION] Adobe Acrobat extreme annoyances

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I have Adobe Acrobat Professional, not just Adobe Acrobat Reader.  It 
insists on occasional updates.  After installation it will search for 
updates, then it will bug you until you do them.  Each update is more than 
100 MB in size and it requires a reboot.  So after installing the program, 
to get it to work correctly you have to download hundreds of megabytes of 
data and reboot *several times*.  I think it was four reboots for me. 
This is because every new update requires the previous updates, so if they 
have four updates available when you install the program, you have to 
download four updates and reboot after every update.  This is on Windows, 
but it's probably the same on Linux or other OSs except that you probably 
don't have to reboot Linux, I would hope!

In the end I have Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0.9 which Windows tells me 
(in Add/Remove Programs) has a "size" of 674.00 MB (707 million bytes, I 
believe).  I assume that is the total amount of disk space I've given up 
to this one program -- it is the volume of the Adobe Acrobat directory in 
Program Files.

Ridiculous bloatware!  This is the worst of all the programs I work with 
regularly.

Mike

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