[Ham-Computers] RE: Adobe Acrobat Reader

[Hsu, Aaron (NBC Universal)]

Straight from the horses mouth...so to speak...

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/acrrsystemreqs.html

Acrobat 5.x requires at least Win95 OSR2 (aka Win95 with FAT32 support).  Acrobat 6.x requires at least Win98SE.

Acrobat 6.x was a problem child in my experience...a resource hog as well as starting a "WYSIWYG" background task each time it started (and not killing it when exiting).  Most PDF's are saved as v1.4 (Acrobat 5) or earlier for compatibility.  v1.5 (Acrobat 6) started adding optimizations such as JPEG2000 graphics formats.

You should be good with v5.0.5 on that ol' Win95 system.

  - Aaron, NN6O


-----Original Message-----
From: ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of jandlmiller at bellsouth.net
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 4:24 PM
To: ham-computers at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Ham-Computers] Adobe Acrobat Reader

Does anyone remember what the latest version of the Adobe Acrobat Reader was that would run on a Win95B machine?  Someone told me they thought 5.5, but that version is not even listed in oldversion.com, so I suspect they are thinking about Internet Explorer 5.5.X that was shipped with W95B.

If Reader Ver 6.0.5 works on a Win98SE machine, is it logical to believe that version will also work on Win95B?

Or, were you better off to use a Ver 5.X Reader because the size is smaller and it likely will run faster?

John W0IKT

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