DrCheese Posted June 14, 2011 Posted June 14, 2011 ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/10.x/10.1.0/en_US/ No changelog yet. Note: This is not 10.0.01 that was released a few weeks ago 3
TheMinister Posted June 14, 2011 Posted June 14, 2011 Serious Bugs. We rolled back to 9.4 because of issues printing multiple copies with X.
FN-GM Posted June 14, 2011 Posted June 14, 2011 Dam i am never going to get my image perfect FoxIT is far better
TheMinister Posted June 14, 2011 Posted June 14, 2011 There is no such thing as the perfect image. It's starts with a great image.. then becomes an image with something a teacher hasn't informed you that they needed.. then theres software updates.. then it's out of date. We had an issue with FoxIT Reader with fonts. Some fonts wouldn't render correctly.
Arthur Posted June 14, 2011 Posted June 14, 2011 We had an issue with FoxIT Reader with fonts. Some fonts wouldn't render correctly. This is why I don't use FoxIt Reader either.
TheMinister Posted June 14, 2011 Posted June 14, 2011 Did you also get the "It doesn't look that way on the screen" with FoxIT ?
DrCheese Posted June 14, 2011 Author Posted June 14, 2011 Suprised you put things like adobe on the image, usually ends up out of date fairly quickly and needs updating via GPO anyway
Arthur Posted June 14, 2011 Posted June 14, 2011 Did you also get the "It doesn't look that way on the screen" with FoxIt? Yeah. The quality of the font rendering in FoxIt wasn't very good (my PDFs looked almost exactly like the ones shown here).
DrCheese Posted June 14, 2011 Author Posted June 14, 2011 http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/837/cpsid_83708/attachments/Acrobat_Reader_ReleaseNote_10.1.pdf Release notes... that need a PDF reader installed first to read
TheMinister Posted June 15, 2011 Posted June 15, 2011 I've actually been looking at deploying PDF-X-Change. It seems to be a nice PDF reader and had a mottle of other features, namely PDF to TIF,JPG.
Arthur Posted June 15, 2011 Posted June 15, 2011 List of known issues... http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/907/cpsid_90705.html
Michael Posted June 15, 2011 Posted June 15, 2011 (edited) For those of you that still use Adobe Reader X, deploying the MSP update file will be quicker as it's half the size of the Adobe Reader X 10.1 MSI. Edit: On seconds thoughts it doesn't work, but deploying the MSI does, oh well... Edited June 15, 2011 by Michael
somabc Posted June 15, 2011 Posted June 15, 2011 Dam i am never going to get my image perfect FoxIT is far better Don't deploy the software as part of the image, use a minimal image and the software automatically installed after. Then it is *always* perfect.
BHMS Posted June 15, 2011 Posted June 15, 2011 10.1 versions and it's still slow, buggy and vulnerable. If I didn't have to update adobe products every few days I might be able to get some more work done.
DrCheese Posted June 15, 2011 Author Posted June 15, 2011 If I didn't have to update adobe products every few days I might be able to get some more work done. Tell me about it, I'm forever updating Flash player. I wouldn't bother but it's always major security fixes so I have no choice. I wish Adobe would get together with Microsoft and allow it to be added properly to WSUS, then I could just ignore it.
gillop Posted June 15, 2011 Posted June 15, 2011 We have a problem that when pupils try to open a PDF from within Powerpoint 2007 on machines with Reader X it takes ages (5 minutes or more) but if the same machine has reader 9.30 it opens straight away.
TheScarfedOne Posted June 15, 2011 Posted June 15, 2011 Oh joy! Right... gonna do some shameless blog promotion! Im playing with AppV and you can sequence Adobe Reader. Saves it being "installed" on the machines, and you can simply update your AppV snapshot. Hell... theres even an "get it going quickly" helper too :-) Links over on my blog, literally just posted it!
Arthur Posted June 15, 2011 Posted June 15, 2011 just ignore it This is why I'm looking forward to Windows 8. It has a built-in PDF viewer (just like Mac OS X).
synaesthesia Posted June 15, 2011 Posted June 15, 2011 Quite frankly, a couple of fonts not properly rendering is absolutely minimal compared to the bloaty, buggy cack that Adobe seem to have installed in many of our brains as the only option to read PDF Files. Rather like if Hoover were the only brand of vacuum cleaner anyone actually knew about thanks to the name, yet it wouldn't suck (yet sucked at the same time) without draining the national grid of it's power, stealing your spouse and running off with the car. But you accept it, just because that's what it does. Do the world a favour, get rid of Adobe Reader. 1
DrCheese Posted June 15, 2011 Author Posted June 15, 2011 If only it was that easy. A lot of software looks for adobe reader and only adobe reader and ignores everything else. Other products that work fine with other readers may only be supported by their tech support if you have adobe reader. I don't find the reader *that* buggy, it's flash that drives me crazy!
synaesthesia Posted June 15, 2011 Posted June 15, 2011 Thats exactly my point - lazy coders that look specifically for one particular program. And they get away with it! If a website refused to work with anything but Internet Explorer they'd find themselves losing a hell of a lot of business.
SYNACK Posted June 15, 2011 Posted June 15, 2011 If only it was that easy. A lot of software looks for adobe reader and only adobe reader and ignores everything else. Other products that work fine with other readers may only be supported by their tech support if you have adobe reader. I don't find the reader *that* buggy, it's flash that drives me crazy! Yes, that makes me angry too, our delightfull pile of MIS from MUSAC does the same thing with its installer despite being a reported fault then kindly offers to install Acroat Reader 5 for you Arrrrghhghhh. I have made and posted a reg hack here under the NZ MIS secton to trick it though. It is just lazy incompetent programers that keep adobe PDF reader in circulation which is ironic as that is the same crew that seem to write it.
gshaw Posted June 27, 2011 Posted June 27, 2011 Anyone had Protected Mode errors with Reader X? Had it on a machine the other day and it wasn't happy, not sure if it's redirected Appdata \ roaming profiles again? Is the latest version of 9 OK with appdata? Lost track of the fixed \ bugged \ unsupported status of each Reader update as they seem to break as much as they fix each time
AngryTechnician Posted June 27, 2011 Posted June 27, 2011 (edited) 9.4.2 works with redirected AppData and is ostensibly a supported scenario, so long as your share has the permissions it requires. Users must have the Traverse directory permission on every folder from the root of the share through to their redirected AppData folder, even if they only have actual read access to their folder. My own testing of 10.1 indicates that Protected Mode is still broken for drives maps to DFS shares, though it seems to work with raw UNC paths. Also, if you turn it off, you may get the following error when double-clicking some (but not all) PDFs on a UNC path (DFS or not): http://angrytechnician.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/reader.png Oh, and it does it with Outlook 2010 attachments too. The best part is that if Adobe Reader is already open, it doesn't do it - only if Reader isn't open already, and only with a seemingly random selection of documents. I've finally given up with Adobe and am in the middle of testing a Foxit Enterprise Reader deployment right now. Edited June 27, 2011 by AngryTechnician 9.4.2 info
pete Posted June 27, 2011 Posted June 27, 2011 Thats exactly my point - lazy coders that look specifically for one particular program. And they get away with it! If a website refused to work with anything but Internet Explorer they'd find themselves losing a hell of a lot of business. I think you'll find those coders just get a job in enterprise app development, where you get paid so long as it works in IE 6. (yes, I know the reasons)
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