| Leonard Rosenthol on Fri, 2 Aug 2002 15:15:24 -0400 |
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At 1:56 PM -0400 8/2/02, Arthur S. Alexion wrote: I have a licensed copy of the full Acrobat for Windows product.
On Linux, I can create PDFs with a variety of software, but I can't "edit" them as Adobe does not sell a unix version of editor (used to be called "Acrobat Exchange"). That is correct, Acrobat 3.x was the last "full version" of Acrobat available for Unix platforms (unless you could Acrobat 5 for Mac OS X). Now it's just Reader. There are a number of intemediate steps available as Reader upgrades, allowing form data to be saved and some other functionality, via *.api plug-ins. Actually, there is NO WAY to get Reader to save - "if it could save, it would be called Saver" ;). Can I simply copy the Windows *.api files to my Linux Reader installation?
Are there any unix specific plug-ins available?
Acrobat was originally supposed to be a multi-platform solution, Still is...just not equivalently functional on all platforms. (even the Mac OS and Windows have disparity!). but Adobe seems to have dropped all but Reader support from unix, at least that is what is implied by the absence of any mention of any unix ports on the website. (Searches only yield some technical data on Distiller 3.02, two major releases ago and no longer available.)
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