On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:55:18 +0100
Paul Tansom <paul@???> wrote:
> I was aware of the Opera archive, but last time I looked at it the
> version in there was so old as to be useless. I've not checked back
> since on the assumption that they had abandoned the idea.
currently opera ver 9.23
> Likewise with the Marillat one, I was aware, although this time I
> made the decision to go straight to Adobe as I've not had that much
> confidence with archives for proprietary software and/or ones
> outside the main distribution. Much like with the Opera one I've
> often found them to be several versions out of date.
currently acroread ver 8.11
The Adobe version of acroread 7.0 wanted to report back which pdf's
you had opened and the Debian version removed this spyware stuff
(some javascript) so I have used the debianised version since.
See:
http://lwn.net/Articles/129729/
one thing I dislike about the current version of acroread is that it
now opens each pdf* in a separate window instead of putting them all
in one window and allowing choice of document displayed with the
Window option in the menubar. That still works but it was neater when
it was only one window. Don't know if it makes any difference to
memory usage having multiple windows.
*I nearly always have 3 documents open, Hants Marriage Index, Hants
Burial Index and a page from the Hants Baptism Index as part of my
ongoing genealogy research.
--
John Lewis
Debian (Sid) with the GeneWeb genealogy package
