Early peek at Adobe Reader 7 for Linux

A new Linux version of Adobe Systems' Reader software for viewing Portable Document Format, or PDF, files is available on the company's FTP download site--but it's not the final product, spokeswoman Rebecca Michals said late Tuesday. Instead, the software is a prerelease version made available to help people in the Netherlands meet tax deadlines, she said.

"The shipping version is not yet available," she said. Adobe began beta-testing Reader 7 for Linux in January, restoring support for the open-source operating system that the company had bypassed with Reader 6.

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its about goddamn time

Im so sick of the windows users and their 1337 acroread

Sure...

1337 is hardly what you can call that bloated slowpoke of a program. Beginning with that stupid installer (FEAD optimizer? It certainly optimizes slowness) through the startup times are larger than openoffice!

I say just fix the ******* mousescroll to work with the linux version and I'm one less unhappy user.

Until then XPDF all the way.

[goombah]

Gotta Coupla Stupid Questions

1) Why does Adobe give a rip about people in the Netherlands being able to do their taxes? Has the NL government standardized on Adobe 7 for making tax forms available?

2) I went to the site and downloaded the program. If this program is for Netherlanders, WHY THE HECK IS IT IN ENGLISH? Dutch would make more sense.

*Weird*