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nuopus

Member

From: Mesa, AZ

Registered: 2005-03-09

Posts: 60

Re: [new] acroread 7.0

woooo sorry for not checking back here to fix things .... I am just getting into Arch package building .. so please excuse the errors.

At any rate, for some WIERD reason I decided to switch back to Gentoo ... my install took 2 days to get the way I want so now im back to Arch again! LOL I love this distro.

tranxene

Member

From: France

Registered: 2005-02-26

Posts: 13

Re: [new] acroread 7.0

i just want to annotate that acrobate reader includes SPYWARE!
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid= … 11&tid=158

it seems there are 2 ways to disable it:
either you just disable javascript but you will be confronted with annoying popups at every acrobat reader seession - or you rename the plugin folder /opt/acrobat/reader/intellinux/plug_ins

it would be fine to get a clean version of this reader ...

puntmuts

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Registered: 2005-02-22

Posts: 138

Re: [new] acroread 7.0

3. Or remove the whole thing from your harddisk. 38.2 MB for a reader including spyware. KPDF is getting better all the time so no need to use this

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tranxene

Member

From: France

Registered: 2005-02-26

Posts: 13

Re: [new] acroread 7.0

gunzipped and installed it makes 95 mb! - but instead of renaming the plugin folder you could completely get rid of it and free in this way 43 mb  :?

stonecrest

Member

From: Boulder

Registered: 2005-01-22

Posts: 1,190

Re: [new] acroread 7.0

3. Or remove the whole thing from your harddisk. 38.2 MB for a reader including spyware. KPDF is getting better all the time so no need to use this

Well, let's see. Presumably KPDF needs kdelibs, among other things.

# pacman -S kdelibs
...
Total Package Size:   40.0 MB

Or maybe I should look at evince..

#pacman -S evince
...
Total Package Size:   26.4 MB

I haven't tried gpdf or xpdf in a while but last I tried them, they had very few features, some of which I need. So no, 38.2mb is not ridiculous. How small is your harddrive that this is a problem?

And it's very easy to disable the "spyware" from acroread, just disable javascript.

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iphitus

Forum Fellow

From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: [new] acroread 7.0

i just want to annotate that acrobate reader includes SPYWARE!
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid= … 11&tid=158

it seems there are 2 ways to disable it:
either you just disable javascript but you will be confronted with annoying popups at every acrobat reader seession - or you rename the plugin folder /opt/acrobat/reader/intellinux/plug_ins

it would be fine to get a clean version of this reader ...

Oh the paranoia, hurry up and put on your tin foil hat.

tranxene

Member

From: France

Registered: 2005-02-26

Posts: 13

Re: [new] acroread 7.0

@iphitus

Oh the paranoia, hurry up and put on your tin foil hat.

if you're not concerned with security - that's your problem, but it doesn't jusitfy your opinionatedness.

iphitus

Forum Fellow

From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: [new] acroread 7.0

@iphitus

Oh the paranoia, hurry up and put on your tin foil hat.

if you're not concerned with security - that's your problem, but it doesn't jusitfy your opinionatedness.

Oh puhleeze, its paranoia, OMG the creators of XYZ pdf know 203.183.235.101 opened it.....

It's not a severe security issue.

It's like bitching because advertisement companies put cookies on your hard drives to know what ads you have already seen, or google tracking information to serve appropriate ads.

it's not a security issue. the paranoid consider it a privacy issue.

aCoder

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From: Medina, OH

Registered: 2004-03-07

Posts: 359

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Re: [new] acroread 7.0

it's not a security issue. the paranoid consider it a privacy issue.

Why don't we call it 'sort of annoying'?

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tranxene

Member

From: France

Registered: 2005-02-26

Posts: 13

Re: [new] acroread 7.0

@iphitus:

go and hunt crocodiles!

iphitus

Forum Fellow

From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: [new] acroread 7.0

@iphitus:

go and hunt crocodiles!

scarecrow

Member

From: Greece

Registered: 2004-11-18

Posts: 715

Re: [new] acroread 7.0

Adobe reader 7.0 final is out. Will test the PKGBUILD with it sometime today.

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Cotton

Member

From: Cornwall, UK

Registered: 2004-09-17

Posts: 568

Re: [new] acroread 7.0

Pretty certain that the pre final release 0.7 version has a memory leak.

Shows itself when opening a web based pdf.

Anyone else experienced this?

scarecrow

Member

From: Greece

Registered: 2004-11-18

Posts: 715

Re: [new] acroread 7.0

The PKBUILD is working fine after the self- explicable modifications, namely

md5sums=(f847ce21e5d871837f2dc1d2f1baf9a9)

to

md5sums=(0ce9b4fc702f831db97a627ef2629675)

EDIT: I see it jumped into "Current" a few minutes ago.

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darkcoder

Member

From: A bar near you

Registered: 2004-09-10

Posts: 310

Re: [new] acroread 7.0

For those who want an icon, add the following to /usr/share/applications with the name of acroread.desktop

acroread.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Adobe Reader
Exec=acroread
Icon=/opt/acrobat/Resource/Icons/AdobeReader.png
Type=Application
Terminal=false
MultipleArgs=false
GenericName=Adobe PDF Viewer
Categories=Application;Office;
StartupNotify=true
MimeType=application/pdf;application/vnd.fdf;application/vnd.adobe.xfdf;application/vnd.adobe.xpd+xml;application/vnd.adobe.xfd+xml;

If want to add the acroread.desktop to the package itself, just insert the next two lines just prior to the last chown command on the PKGBUILD

  mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/share/applications
  cp $startdir/acroread.desktop $startdir/pkg/usr/share/applications/

Dreameen

Member

From: Poland

Registered: 2004-09-06

Posts: 252

Re: [new] acroread 7.0

To get rid of the *evil* spyware in acroread you can disable javascript, but there's still this annoying message when you close the app..something like 'the document requires js, would you like to enable it? yes/no' even though no document is opened.

To get rid of this stupid message apply a small patch:

http://www.k-lug.org/~griswold/Files/ad … linux.perl

iphitus

Forum Fellow

From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: [new] acroread 7.0

To get rid of the *evil* spyware in acroread

rofl, evil, thats rich   

ozar

Member

From: USA

Registered: 2005-02-18

Posts: 1,686

Re: [new] acroread 7.0

I've always used acroread in the past but it's getting way too bloated in my opinion.  Guess it's back to Xpdf for now...    :x

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