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Adobe Reader

Adobe Reader - 9.0

view & print PDF files

All Time: (2.6)
This Version: (1.0)
Current Version: 9.0
Release Date: 2008-07-02
License: Freeware
Downloads (this version): 8,495
Downloads (all versions): 899,864

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Product Description:

Adobe Reader is free software that lets you view and print Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files on a variety of hardware and operating system platforms. This new version of the familiar Adobe Acrobat Reader provides a host of rich features that enable you to:
  • Submit Adobe PDF forms that are created with fillable form fields in such applications as Adobe Acrobat Professional and Adobe Form Designer
  • Play back a variety of embedded multimedia content, such as QuickTime and MP3 files
  • Read and organize high-fidelity eBooks
  • Activate search and accessibility capabilities built into your PDF files
  • Display Adobe Photoshop? Album slide shows and electronic cards and export images for online photo processing (online photo services vary regionally)

What's new in this version:

adds much new functionality, especially relating to collaboration, PDF file creation, security, and an enhanced user experience. http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/reasons_to_upgrade/

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Editor's Notes:


If you see 8.1.2 listed by default click the "Different language or operating system?" link and select the appropriate system version you are running. Different language or operating system?

Here's the direct downloads for:
Intel 10.4.11 or higher
PPC 10.4.11 or higher

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Adobe Reader ReviewShoddy, non-deployable. - Version: 9.0, 7/6/2008 07:15PM PST

versiontracker2007
While on the outside, it would appear nice that Adobe now provides an Apple Installer, the truth is it's just a wrapper for some proprietary installer by some loser company called iNOSSO.

Indeed, the installer doesn't work when deployed through Apple Remote Desktop - it needs to be run locally via the GUI, which is unacceptable for large-scale deployments. Or even small ones for that matter. What is the point in making it "look" like a pkg, when it really isn't and doesn't work like one?

Additionally, the installation is incomplete. Even after running it "properly" (using its own version of the word "properly"), starting up Adobe Reader results in an admin password request to install something for Safari. Why on earth did the installer not do that in the first place? Not only does the installer apparently require interactive operation to install, afterwards you also need to interactively, one at a time, authenticate to finish what the installer didn't do the first time around.

This is poor. Very very poor. I realize many ppl will wonder what the big deal is, but if you were expected to deploy software to 2000 workstations, you'd be annoyed about this too.

So, now I have to deconstruct what actually gets installed, and build my own installer that works correctly. Because Adobe couldn't do that themselves. I don't know who comes up with your installers, but they need to be removed from the human gene pool. And I haven't even got to the program itself. Not looking good at all...

Adobe, you're seriously pathetic. I've already been laying the groundwork for discontinuing use of your Acrobat products, since you refuse to make a version of Acrobat Standard for Mac (we are site licensed for "Standard", but this is now worthless to our Mac users), so hopefully we should be able to run both Acrobat and Reader out of our network on a big fat rail.
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Adobe Reader Troubleshooting ReportInternal Error - Version: 9.0, 7/3/2008 12:34PM PST

jwilkins
I download the package, the installation is successful, but when I start Adobe 9, it crashes with an internal error.
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Adobe Reader Troubleshooting ReportFeatures Missing - Version: 9.0, 7/2/2008 08:54PM PST

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kenm22
After installing Adobe Reader 9.0 I tested it at the forms page for irs.gov. I have my settings so that display of a pdf in Safari utilizes Adobe's plugin.

The requested form, 1040ES, displayed but I received an alert telling me that certain features were not enabled in Reader and, after filling in the form, I could print but not save the document. A dialog also appeared at the top of the document advising me of the same.

I attempted to find where, in Reader, to turn on these features but could not. I then removed Reader 9 and reinstalled Adobe Reader 8.1.2 as well as its current update. Things returned to normal.

I have filed a bug report with Adobe.
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