Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Adobe Acrobat extreme annoyances

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike Miller wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Joseph Ondrus wrote:
>
> > Just a world of warning as well, do not update Pro 8.  Many people 
> > have found that updating (me being on of them) causes Acrobat 8 Pro to 
> > no longer load.  I tried uninstalling and starting from scratch, ran 
> > through registry and removed every associated key I could find (took a 
> > good hour and a half).  Ended up reinstalling Windows completely.  I 
> > decided to not download/install/prompt for any updates.  I figure it's 
> > not broke so I'm not going to 'fix it' with any updates.  Updating 8 
> > did the same thing, asked to restart over and over as well.  I am 
> > waiting for Xournal to catch up on the PDF annotating capabilities of 
> > Adobe Acrobat Pro, then I can ditch this whole OS altogether :)
>
> I get Acrobat Pro through our university for no charge and I'll bet I 
> could get version 8, so I'm glad you warned me.
>
> The thing is, I don't have very sophisticated needs.  I just want to 
> write very simple PDF documents, say from Word.  I suppose I could dump 
> Acrobat, Word and Windows and use Open Office on Linux and get what I 
> need that way.  I wouldn't be surprised if that would work great.  I'm 
> working on transitioning.  These days, with Ubuntu doing so well, I 
> don't think it will be all that tricky for me to get out of Windows 
> altogether.  As it stands I do most of my work under Linux and/or 
> Solaris, but I connect to those machines from a Windows box -- why not 
> cut out the middle man?!
>
> Mike

Why don't you use OpenOffice on Windows?



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