Comments on: Adobe Reader without Air http://notepad.patheticcockroach.com/387/adobe-reader-without-air/ The area in patheticcockroach.com where the EEG isn't isoelectric Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:12:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David Dernoncourt http://notepad.patheticcockroach.com/387/adobe-reader-without-air/comment-page-1/#comment-226 David Dernoncourt Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:43:24 +0000 http://notepad.patheticcockroach.com/?p=387#comment-226 What do you mean by "drag text out to text editor"? If you're just talking about selecting some text of the PDF and copy/pasting it, Sumatra is perfect for this. Adobe Reader X is currently really terribly buggy about copying selected text, it fails like >50% of the times I try. About the latest Reader 9, I don't know if they left unpatched security issues in it, but from what I remember it's much less buggy than Reader X. What do you mean by “drag text out to text editor”? If you’re just talking about selecting some text of the PDF and copy/pasting it, Sumatra is perfect for this. Adobe Reader X is currently really terribly buggy about copying selected text, it fails like >50% of the times I try.
About the latest Reader 9, I don’t know if they left unpatched security issues in it, but from what I remember it’s much less buggy than Reader X.

]]> By: 123 http://notepad.patheticcockroach.com/387/adobe-reader-without-air/comment-page-1/#comment-225 123 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:27:42 +0000 http://notepad.patheticcockroach.com/?p=387#comment-225 been looking for a reader that will just drag text out to text editor. these do not: foxit3.?, coolpdfreader3.?, sumatrapdf1.4 i prefer light as possible, but am now resigned to acrord 10 (via your links, thanks to all above posts for their link hunting). i've no time to research if last acro9 is 1. secure, 2. 'lighter (ram) than acro10. (both airless and airfree of course) been looking for a reader that will just drag text out to text editor. these do not: foxit3.?, coolpdfreader3.?, sumatrapdf1.4
i prefer light as possible, but am now resigned to acrord 10 (via your links, thanks to all above posts for their link hunting). i’ve no time to research if last acro9 is 1. secure, 2. ‘lighter (ram) than acro10. (both airless and airfree of course)

]]> By: David Dernoncourt http://notepad.patheticcockroach.com/387/adobe-reader-without-air/comment-page-1/#comment-208 David Dernoncourt Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:25:16 +0000 http://notepad.patheticcockroach.com/?p=387#comment-208 Wow, that's strange it's exactly the same as the one I get from their download page (link in my previous comment - I get the link directly, no plugin needed)... Their site's really weird! Edit: downloading from Firefox (4), I get the installer without AIR and without the option to include Google's Toolbar. Downloading from MSIE (9), I'm forced to get Adobe Reader with AIR... what the heck... Well, I guess I should post the FTP link again in the first post then. Wow, that’s strange it’s exactly the same as the one I get from their download page (link in my previous comment – I get the link directly, no plugin needed)… Their site’s really weird!

Edit: downloading from Firefox (4), I get the installer without AIR and without the option to include Google’s Toolbar. Downloading from MSIE (9), I’m forced to get Adobe Reader with AIR… what the heck… Well, I guess I should post the FTP link again in the first post then.

]]> By: Sam Prince http://notepad.patheticcockroach.com/387/adobe-reader-without-air/comment-page-1/#comment-207 Sam Prince Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:17:04 +0000 http://notepad.patheticcockroach.com/?p=387#comment-207 tbh, I never got that far - I used the version on the FTP. I'm not a fan of adobe's requirement that I install a plugin to download via http. They really have cornered the market in irritatingly intrusive end-user experience! This is the one I grabbed: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/10.x/10.0.1/en_US/AdbeRdr1001_en_US.exe tbh, I never got that far – I used the version on the FTP. I’m not a fan of adobe’s requirement that I install a plugin to download via http. They really have cornered the market in irritatingly intrusive end-user experience!

This is the one I grabbed:

ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/10.x/10.0.1/en_US/AdbeRdr1001_en_US.exe

]]> By: David Dernoncourt http://notepad.patheticcockroach.com/387/adobe-reader-without-air/comment-page-1/#comment-206 David Dernoncourt Tue, 22 Mar 2011 23:09:08 +0000 http://notepad.patheticcockroach.com/?p=387#comment-206 Well, I assumed that this size increase was due to the sandbox thing. I noticed that Adobe tend to serve very different download pages to different people. In the end, in this the installer you get? => <a href="http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/10.x/10.0.1/en_US/AdbeRdr1001_en_US.exe" rel="nofollow">http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/10.x/10.0.1/en_US/AdbeRdr1001_en_US.exe</a> Well, I assumed that this size increase was due to the sandbox thing. I noticed that Adobe tend to serve very different download pages to different people. In the end, in this the installer you get?
=> http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/10.x/10.0.1/en_US/AdbeRdr1001_en_US.exe

]]> By: Sam Prince http://notepad.patheticcockroach.com/387/adobe-reader-without-air/comment-page-1/#comment-205 Sam Prince Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:58:12 +0000 http://notepad.patheticcockroach.com/?p=387#comment-205 I was going off the fact that it says "Includes Adobe® AIR®" under "Adobe Reader X (10.0.1)" and the download size quoted is 11MB bigger than the installer available on the FTP, even after I tell them I (obviously) don't want to install a new antivirus product along with the pdf reader. I was going off the fact that it says “Includes Adobe® AIR®” under “Adobe Reader X (10.0.1)” and the download size quoted is 11MB bigger than the installer available on the FTP, even after I tell them I (obviously) don’t want to install a new antivirus product along with the pdf reader.

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