[Ham-Computers] Adobe Acrobat Reader

[jandlmiller at bellsouth.net]

Thanks, Aaron and roger the horse's mouth.  You sure put that one to bed quickly.

I had forgotten the unpleasant media attention 6.x received when it hit the street.  There was the hog issue, of course, and I recall one reviewer wondering in print (with respect to the WYSIWYG) whether it was necessary to fully explain how a clock worked when the question was what time it is.

Often I wished for the opportunity to get some of the early programmers, Bricklin, Ratliff, Kildall and many others into a room and ask them to critique the industry as it is.

John W0IKT 
> 
> From: "Hsu, Aaron (NBC Universal)" <aaron.hsu at nbcuni.com>
> Date: 2007/06/11 Mon PM 06:48:01 EST
> To: "I>Ham-Computers" <Ham-Computers at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: RE: Adobe Acrobat Reader
> 
> Straight from the horses mouth...so to speak...
> 
> http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/acrrsystemreqs.html
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> 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
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> -----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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