This news sped past me the other day in the midst of all the other bigger stories, and it’s something that will make Linux fans happy: Adobe has released Acrobat Reader 7.0 for Linux.
This is good news because until now, Linux users were stuck with Acrobat version 5, which doesn’t have the feature set of the new reader. In fact, Adobe dropped Linux porting after version 5.0, and only changed their minds for the new version last year.
One caveat: you’ll have to download the Reader from Adobe’s ftp site, as they haven’t made it available via their website download page yet. This is the final version, and not the beta version that was available for testing earlier in the year. I’ve installed the reader and the plugin for Firefox (which Adobe states that it supports), and it works very well on initial testing. There is one thing the new reader doesn’t do: it no longer crashes Firefox when clicking the “back” button from a loaded PDF file.
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