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Adobe Reader Paywall?

LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
edited 2013-04-13 23:43 in General Discussion
I am trying to figure out what is going on with Adobe Reader 9. I loaded a recent version and it appears to download PDFs fine. It is rather fancy and a bit slow, but useable.

Still, when I go to save a PDF to read later, it seems to want me to pay a fee for an added software feature to do so. This seems rather ridiculous as I am in Linux and I can likely reconfigure to another PDF reader than won't charge me to save PDFs.

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  • evanhevanh Posts: 15,948
    edited 2013-04-13 01:16
    I just use firefox to "save link as" of the direct link to the pdf.

    Most of the time I'm wanting to keep the pdf so I generally don't view pdfs in the browser at all. Besides, the transfer progress is much more informative when saving it as a file.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-04-13 01:17
    I can't imagine why you are using it on Linux in the first place. Does it have some "must have" feature that we are missing with other programs?
  • evanhevanh Posts: 15,948
    edited 2013-04-13 02:06
    Ah, in the cases where the link is to a server-side script that can't be directly saved by firefox, I also have firefox set to default prompt asking if I want to save or view the media that was clicked on. This gets around the hidden files issue. Applies to all media types I think, which suits me fine.
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2013-04-13 03:40
    It is a bit difficult to recall why I loaded Adobe Reader, but I believe that I was have trouble with reading Green Array pdfs without it. Green Array and Forth, Inc. seem to not want to support any public domain context.

    Yes, I can work around the 'pay to download feature', but I thought it deserved a mention in passing.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-04-13 06:17
    No idea what a "public domain context" might be but if Green Arrays want to make it hard to learn about their products I guess they will just have to keep their products to themselves. I find that hard to believe.
  • rod1963rod1963 Posts: 752
    edited 2013-04-13 08:19
    GreenArrays make all their docs available as PDF and not once did I have a problem opening and saving them in Acrobat in 9.1. Mind you this is the free version so I can't create or modify them. But I am using the evil empire OS, XP.
  • NWCCTVNWCCTV Posts: 3,629
    edited 2013-04-13 16:59
    Myself I use CutePDF Writer. It installs as a printer and you can print anything you want to it. Very cool program.
  • HumanoidoHumanoido Posts: 5,770
    edited 2013-04-13 23:43
    I also noticed the updated PDF program is wacky with previous features removed.
    The solution, to save, use native OSX and print to PDF file.
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