[GTALUG] Adobe Reader Alternatives for Linux

Dhaval Giani dhaval.giani at gmail.com
Wed Oct 11 10:18:31 EDT 2017


On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 10:16 AM, Myles Braithwaite 👾 <me at mylesb.ca> wrote:
> Dhaval Giani via talk wrote:
>> However the government of Canada (in its infinite wisdom) has mandated
>> that to open and fill their forms, one use Adobe Reader. (As an
>> example see http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/pdf/kits/citizen/CIT0002E-2.pdf
>> ).
>>
>> Alternatives?
>
> Not sure if you tried this yet but Adobe released a version of Acrobat
> Reader for Linux in 2013 you can still download off their FTP server:
> <ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.5.5/enu/>.

Hi Myles,

I thought about it. But 4 yr old software, from a company that has a
history of security issues? :-). Not my first choice.

Thanks!
Dhaval


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