Solaris X86 Acrobat Reader Page

Powered by Solaris x86 Have you ever tried to get Acrobat for Solaris and got frustrated only to realize that there is not a current version available for Solarisx86 but there is for Solaris SPARC.

Now is your chance to add your RANT about it.

As of March 2, 1999 you can now get a copy of version 4.0 of Adobe Acrobat reader for Solaris x86 at: http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/unix/4.x/sunx86-ar-405.tar.gz
However they never released a version 5 for Solaris x86.
Well this was an opportunity to vent and show your real willingess to support an effort. In other words put your money where your mouth is...and maybe we will all win. If you so choose, enter other methods of support like porting or testing. Keep in mind these are part of the product and they just might take you seriously. Then again maybe not.

Make an Adobe Product Feature Request yourself first hand!
See what the Forums at adobe have to say about it and send your comments Adobe support Forum You will have to register with adobe to do this
Run the other alternative, xpdf-2.00, a precompiled version is on the companion CD and available at: http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/freeware/

XPDF is also available in source form at http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html
The original Acrobat for Solaris x86 wishlist
Name: Panagiotis Nikolaou
Email:withheld
Date: Monday, June 20, 2005 at 02:37:01


Rant:
I would like to have Acrobat Reader 7 in Solaris 10 x86. I cannot understand why Adobe doesn't release it, while releases it for Linux and other platforms!
Name: User
Email:withheld
Date: Friday, June 17, 2005 at 18:22:20


Rant:
+1
Name: Warwick
Email:withheld
Date: Saturday, June 11, 2005 at 21:24:44


Rant:
I would really appreciate having Acrobat Reader available for Solaris x86 as it is the operating system that I use the most for my work. I have been wanting this for a couple of years and it is now getting to the point where I am asking my clients to send me files in OpenOffice format, as anyone running almost any OS including Solaris x86 can download and install a copy of OpenOffice that will run on their OS of choice and open OpenOffice files without any trouble. PDFs are not portable if they cannot be open on any OS and architecture.
Name: Jai
Email:withheld
Date: Thursday, May 26, 2005 at 15:40:00


Rant:
Solaris 10 is now opensource. With Sun now selling more and more AMD systems, time for Adobe to wake up and realize the potential for Solaris x86 too.
Name: Jakub Tesinsky
Email:withheld
Date: Thursday, May 19, 2005 at 11:28:30


Rant:
I really need to be able to access technical documentation on out database servers which all use Solaris on x86 architecture. I am very surprised to find out that Adobe despite of its declared openness to all platforms neglects existence of this platform. Furthemeore I do not think it is that difficult to compile AR for this configuration.
Name: Thommy M.
Email:withheld
Date: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 at 10:31:17


Rant:
I love Solaris 10 x86 and I love Acrobat Reader 7. Why can't the live together??? /Thommy M.
Name: Tony Sikes
Email:withheld
Date: Monday, May 9, 2005 at 15:12:15


Rant:
He4y come on guys lets get a current version of Acrobat reader out there for Solaris X86. Times change and so do trends. I can see why you dropped the X86 support as Sun tried to drop the product. But again times change and now X86 is back with more force than ever before. Read the trade rags Solaris 10 X86 is out there kicking butt and if you guys can not recompile your Sparc version for X86 then people will look to other products. I have been using your products for years, paying my money and supporting your company. Please support mine.
Name: rob cibrario
Email:withheld
Date: Monday, May 2, 2005 at 11:32:56


Rant:
....and the reason is? ~97% common source. DO it or be left behind.
Name: Samsi Sergey
Email:withheld
Date: Friday, April 29, 2005 at 12:01:17


Rant:
Acrobat 7.0 under Solaris 10 ought to be available.
Name: Alfredo Peña
Email:withheld
Date: Sunday, April 17, 2005 at 20:30:46


Rant:
We plan to use Solaris 10 x86 as our only operating system. I was very pleased with the announce of Adobe Reader 7 for Linux. Making it work for Solaris is not that hard. Please do it.
Name: deus_the_programmer
Email:withheld
Date: Sunday, April 17, 2005 at 18:39:46


Rant:
its rediculus not supplying solaris x86 with a decent version of acrobat, cant be that hard to port the sparc version. please supply a version now!!!
Name: Michael LIAO
Email:withheld
Date: Saturday, April 16, 2005 at 03:24:13


Rant:
Solaris x86 is great. I need work in this great operating system with Acrobat reader.
Name: Guy Dallaire
Email:withheld
Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 at 14:41:42


Rant:
Solaris x86 should be supported ! All versions, forever ! Moving from sparc to AMD 64, I need acrobat, it's only a recompile !
Name: Pelissier
Email:withheld
Date: Friday, April 8, 2005 at 13:25:24


Rant:
Need of acrobat reader 7.0 for Solaris 9/10 X86
Name: wangyu
Email:withheld
Date: Monday, April 4, 2005 at 03:37:58


Rant:
solaris x86 is important
Name: Eric Cantin
Email:withheld
Date: Thursday, March 31, 2005 at 14:08:16


Rant:
last version acroread on X86 and sparc
Name: g. henry
Email:withheld
Date: Thursday, March 31, 2005 at 11:58:05


Rant:
we need a decent release of acrobat reader under solaris x86
Name: Miguel Simoes
Email:withheld
Date: Friday, March 25, 2005 at 11:47:59


Rant:
Hi, Please add Solarix 10 x86 support for Acrobat Applications. Thanks
Name: King Ichiro
Email:withheld
Date: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 at 20:07:06


Rant:
Need Acrobat7.0 for solaris x86.
Name: Stephen Marney
Email:withheld
Date: Thursday, March 3, 2005 at 13:11:31


Rant:
Sure would be nice to have a Solaris x86 version of Acrobat Reader. It'll soon be a larger installed base than Solaris SPARC (if it's not already.)
Name: Tomislav Vrebac
Email:withheld
Date: Sunday, February 13, 2005 at 11:42:31


Rant:
When will one be available for Solaris x86?
Name: Peter W. Osel
Email:withheld
Date: Saturday, February 5, 2005 at 18:32:10


Rant:
Adobe, please provide __current__ versions of Adobe Acrobat reader on Solaris for x86 and SPARC. The windows version is up to release 7, SPARC is 5.0.10, and Solaris / x86 does not ven exist?!
Name: Russel Taylor
Email:withheld
Date: Saturday, January 29, 2005 at 06:11:13


Rant:
We use the adobe products on windows, but are moving to Java Desktop on Solaris 10 x86. We have found we are unable to get adobe Reader for solaris x86. It would be great to have it as we ARE moving to Solaris X86, and we well have to move away from adobe to another pdf viewer and tools if still can't get it by April 2005. regards Russel Taylor
Name: Joe
Email:withheld
Date: Thursday, January 6, 2005 at 16:30:00


Rant:
Why is it not yet on the list of downloads at Adobe?
Name: A Hopkins
Email:withheld
Date: Wednesday, January 5, 2005 at 18:14:11


Rant:
We need up to date versions of Adobe products on Solaris x86 (both 32bit and 64bit platforms)
Name: Eric Perez
Email:withheld
Date: Monday, January 3, 2005 at 21:39:51


Rant:
I need acrobad reader in solaris x86 !!!!!!
Name: Ed Brown
Email:withheld
Date: Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 15:46:16


Rant:
It was very disheartening to try and install the reader only to find that it searches for an intelsolaris directory that never gets installed. Certainly this is not a big issue to resolve. I suppose Microsoft wrote a smaller check to Adobe when they mailed the bigger check to Sun. Who loses in this deal?
Name: Chris
Email:withheld
Date: Wednesday, November 3, 2004 at 11:45:53


Rant:
I work for Sun and use X86 on my work laptop every day. It would be nice to use the best program out there for PDF files. I will use xpdf until they get their product updated.
Name: Shijun Lei
Email:withheld
Date: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 at 23:08:11


Rant:
After installed the Solaris X86 9 OS very hopefuly on my computer, I was quite frustrated to find that the first software I needed --acrobat reader--has no current edtion for this OS! I'm a little bit confused, aren't the acrobat readers are provided free by adobe company, why don't they provide the current editon for this system?! As far as I know the Solaris X86 OS is appreciated by quite some people and is getting more and more popular around me. We all hope very sincerely that the adobe company release the current edition of arcobat reader for Solaris X86 system ASAP.
Name: Miroslav Zagorac
Email:withheld
Date: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 at 10:09:59


Rant:
Please, please, please make new version of Acrobat Reader for x86 Solaris. Or, if you do not know how to compile it on x86 send me the source and I will do it for free. B-)
Name: Mayur
Email:withheld
Date: Sunday, September 26, 2004 at 14:45:38


Rant:
WHere's world going on? why it seems like we are again going to shrink into Universe!!! why a Company like Adobe which is having leadership in Documentation Portability ,is going to ignore future leader SOlaris OS x86 & SPARC releases. I am sure that in current going with windows is more fruitfull but what about Unix's biggest ever release Solaris 9 ? I am hardly xpecting text to Speech, Search, BookShelf and many other Adobe's Acrobat reader features within next release of Acrobat reader for Solaris (X86/SPARC) release. Please Launch one more Winning product release also for Solaris .
Name: 44234324
Email:withheld
Date: Saturday, September 25, 2004 at 18:44:19


Rant:
tytryt
Name: Keith Kee
Email:withheld
Date: Saturday, September 25, 2004 at 15:51:47


Rant:
Solaris x86 is better than Linux. So, why would you not support it?
Name: Iván F. Moscoso Durán
Email:withheld
Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 at 02:44:55


Rant:
Señores de Adobe, me parece un gran error no tener acrobat reader 6 para la mejor plataforma UNIX, hago todo con Solaris 9 x86, no quiero pensar que estan vendidos solo a Microsoft, no pueden descuidar al mejor sistema operativo UNIX y sus clones, hagan honor a su nombre, por favor hagan una version completa para Solaris 9 x86 del famoso Acrobat reader. Gracias.
Name: Raymond Shwake
Email:withheld
Date: Sunday, September 12, 2004 at 15:42:23


Rant:
Why are Solaris x86 users still stuck at Acrobat Reader 4.05? It's not *that* hard to recompile your Sparc release for x86. Get with it!
Name: Tao Chen
Email:withheld
Date: Sunday, September 5, 2004 at 02:34:12


Rant:
Adobe, I just submit a feature request and I am repeating it here: please provide the latest version of Acrobat Reader for Solaris x86.
Name: Swamy
Email:withheld
Date: Saturday, September 4, 2004 at 05:59:06


Rant:
I don't think Solaris X86 is complete without the PDF reader.... It's simply the best way to read the E-books.
Name: Auriel Bashar
Email:withheld
Date: Saturday, August 14, 2004 at 06:06:26


Rant:
Adobe Acrobat is greatly need for all platforms solaris x86 included. I have been working with solaris for 6 years now and the companies I worked for used solaris x86 more than sparc for workstations. I also use both sparc and x86 ports for home use as well. Thank you for your support
Name: morcos
Email:withheld
Date: Sunday, June 20, 2004 at 16:22:21


Rant:
it's great waaaaaaaaaaaaoooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Name: Phillip Bruce
Email:withheld
Date: Saturday, June 19, 2004 at 18:40:15


Rant:
Adobe, During the release of Adobe 4.0, You orginally had a release of Solaris x86. You stopped that but kept the Sparc version. Please continue to release Adobe and all your products for Solaris. Keep in mind that the Solaris we are referring to is for Solaris x86 release not the Sparc version. It's ok to have that as well and should never be a difficult port between the 2 platforms. Many companies continue to use PDF as their mainline documentations standards such as mine does (Accenture). I've been using Solaris and many of the xpdf doesn't quite support many of the features that Adobe does. It works but it is only half done. Adobe is the only company that can release a version will work. Please release Solaris x86 versions of your products.
Name: Eduardo Rizo Tuxpan
Email:withheld
Date: Monday, June 14, 2004 at 16:15:02


Rant:
Hola, yo también quiero expresar mi gusto/necesidad de usar adobe acrobat en Solaris x86. Un saludo desde Xalapa, Veracruz, México.
Name: Michael Russo
Email:withheld
Date: Friday, May 28, 2004 at 07:53:06


Rant:
You know what Adobe? You can take your fancy icons, your CoolType(TM), your PrintMe Internet Printing crap and shove it. I am going to use xpdf no matter what. Assholes.
Name: Jussi Lind
Email:withheld
Date: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 at 05:57:17


Rant:
Dear Adobe. I need Acrobat Reader for Solaris x86. If that doesn't bother you too much, please make binaries available for the best operating system. Okay, maybe SPARC version would be better ;-)
Name: garima tripathi
Email:withheld
Date: Monday, May 17, 2004 at 17:31:17


Rant:
need acrobat reader 5.0 for solaris x86
Name: Jeffrey Pow
Email:withheld
Date: Monday, May 17, 2004 at 09:53:34


Rant:
I WANT ADOBE READER 6.X ON SOLARIS x86!!!!
Name: todd hesselberg
Email:withheld
Date: Saturday, April 10, 2004 at 17:32:23


Rant:
I would greatly appreciate any effort to plug the whole in the market where there seems to be a need. There is a need for acrobat on x86. I use the old old version quite a bit but am wishing that there would be a newer more robust version available soon. I down load a lot of manuals and presentations in pdf and would like to have a newer solution to keep up with the times. Thanks for reading this and for any understanding you may have an this issue. Todd H.
Name: Muhammad Khurram Bashir Bhatti
Email:withheld
Date: Monday, April 5, 2004 at 16:55:12


Rant:
I remember the first time I had to open a .pdf file in solaris x86 and how I felt when I came to know that there is no version of Acrobat Reader available for Solaris x86. It was anything but pleasant. I don't know why Adobe has not decided to at least give us an Acrobat Reader for Solaris x86 but if they do, it will certainly boost their reputation and will add up to the crebitily of Acrobat Reader being the most widely used pdf reader in the world.
Name: Phillip Bruce
Email:withheld
Date: Sunday, April 4, 2004 at 16:40:35


Rant:
Adobe, As the rest before me has stated it would be more than nice for Adobe to compile a version of all your products that you currently support the Sparc version of Solaris and port it to Solaris x86. This really should be a no brainer to compile for Solaris x86 as the the sparc version isn't that much different. I would like to see current version of the Adobe Reader to be ported over. It is so widely used in the industry. Just having one more to port over shouldn't be that big of deal for such a large firm like you. If you don't want to just allow the Solaris x86 communities to compile and port the code ourselves. Phillip
Name: hubbel
Email:withheld
Date: Thursday, March 18, 2004 at 10:11:34


Rant:
Dear shareholders of the Adobe, your Acrobat-Reader product line is well known and valued in offices all around the world. This makes Adobe the market.leader in portable documents. To keep this position, there's always the need to cover, in best case, all existing platforms and operating systems available on the market. Unfortunally, it seems to me (and most of the Solaris-x86 will agree, I think...) that the current adobe management isn't willing to keep that place seriously. Or why does adobe force us to use clones and open-source software instead of the proven original ? Please help us to keep the company where it should be and make them to build a solaris-x86 version of (at least) acrobat 5. Regards Hubbel
Name: Julien Pierre
Email:withheld
Date: Saturday, March 6, 2004 at 05:25:12


Rant:
Adobe, Please give us a port of Acrobat to Solaris x86 . To Marco Serantoni : IBM still sells OS/2. And the OS/2 version that Adobe currently has for download is 3.0, which is incompatible with most PDFs today unfortunately. I wouldn't mind seeing a v5 Adobe reader for OS/2, in addition to the Solaris x86 v5.
Name: danne
Email:withheld
Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2004 at 03:33:14


Rant:
why won't you make us happy?
Name: Y M
Email:withheld
Date: Monday, February 23, 2004 at 11:57:22


Rant:
Hey, Acrobat... send me the sorce, I'll compile it my self :b
Name: Andy Barnes
Email:withheld
Date: Monday, February 23, 2004 at 11:02:17


Rant:
help me Adobe, your my only hope. I need acrobat 5/6 for Solaris x86 - Please release it into the wild...
Name: Ken
Email:withheld
Date: Monday, February 16, 2004 at 23:25:34


Rant:
Anyone using eBooks and can't read some of the books using Acrobat Reader v4.05 for Solaris x86?? Looking for those eBooks using v6.x/5.x features that may cause issues with older readers.
Name: Vu Pham
Email:withheld
Date: Monday, February 16, 2004 at 19:53:35


Rant:
I really need Acrobat on Solaris x86. Please support this platform ! Vu
Name: Matthias Weiss
Email:withheld
Date: Monday, February 16, 2004 at 15:11:40


Rant:
Dear Adobe's, first you start to occupy the earth with a proprietary format called pdf, than you don't support exotic platforms! That's it? Why? This is stupid, and there's no service! Why do you censored your customers? Isn't really great, so come on, compile that stuff and make us happy. mw
Name: Matthias Weiss
Email:withheld
Date: Monday, February 16, 2004 at 15:09:51


Rant:
Dear Adobe's, first you start to occupy the earth with a proprietary format called pdf, than you don't support exotic platforms! That's it? Why? This is stupid, and there's no service! Why do you censored your customers? Isn't really great, so come on, compile that stuff and make us happy. mw
Name: oscar fajardo
Email:withheld
Date: Thursday, February 12, 2004 at 09:41:35


Rant:
RATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Name: José Luis
Email:withheld
Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 at 09:48:20


Rant:
I need Acrobat Reader 5.0 for Solaris x86. I need at work and at home to read PDF's all the time. Acroread it's a must-be for me.
Name: Daniel Colas
Email:withheld
Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 at 06:36:02


Rant:
Acrobat 6.0, plz
Name: paul morse
Email:withheld
Date: Friday, February 6, 2004 at 23:02:21


Rant:
please release ver. 5 of acrobat reader. for solaris x86 your company already has a ver out for sparc. therefore a port for x86 wouldn't require much work. and those few dollars spent on extra payroll to complete the port would be greatly justified and also appreciated!! thank you for making such a great product. I just wish i could use it!!
Name: Alan Munck
Email:withheld
Date: Monday, February 2, 2004 at 17:46:36


Rant:
Dear Adobe, please compile Acrobat Reader v5.x for Solaris/x86, this must be trivial(?) since you already provide a version for Solaris/Sparc. And given Sun's increasing support and investment in Solaris/x86, you as a company can ride the wave with the rest of us Solaris users. I see Acrobat Reader for Solaris/x86 as a win-win situation for both Adobe Inc. and Solaris/x86 users. And a move to support Solaris/x86 will further enhance the ubiquitousness of Adobe PDF technology. In addition availbility of Acrobat Reader on Solaris/x86 helps support the distribution of documents across platforms. So please Adobe Inc.
Name: Pawel Suchocki
Email:withheld
Date: Sunday, January 18, 2004 at 17:47:32


Rant:
Everybody wants Acrobat...
Name: Emil Grochocki
Email:withheld
Date: Monday, January 12, 2004 at 20:42:31


Rant:
I also need Acrobat Reader for Solaris 9 x86 !!!
Name: Alex Kolbasov
Email:withheld
Date: Monday, January 12, 2004 at 18:31:57


Rant:
I run SOlaris on x86 and need to read lots of PDF documents.
Name: Michael Chance
Email:withheld
Date: Thursday, January 8, 2004 at 14:15:46


Rant:
Need Acrobat reader for Solaris x86
Name: Alan M. Feldstein
Email:withheld
Date: Monday, December 29, 2003 at 22:46:41


Rant:
You can still get 4.05 from Adobe using an FTP client. There appears to be something wrong with Adobe's service to Web browsers with the ftp:// protocol.
Name: Carlos R.
Email:withheld
Date: Saturday, December 20, 2003 at 00:56:33


Rant:
Es posible que los permisos de lectura del directorio esten quitados, puede alguien decirme el nombre del fichero de acrobat reader 4x for solaris intel en ese ftp?
Name: Carlos R.
Email:withheld
Date: Saturday, December 20, 2003 at 00:55:07


Rant:
Se puede saber en donde esta el acrobat reader 4 para plataformas solaris intel? -- en el propio sitio de adobe no aparece, la carpeta esta vacia... A que se debe eso?
Name: ruth Arnold
Email:withheld
Date: Thursday, December 18, 2003 at 16:00:39


Rant:
Why is Adobe not making Acrobat Reader for Solaris and Solaris x86?! The Solaris version is up to 5.0 but the x86 version does not even exist anymore! Linux is even behind. Does Adobe not recognize that other operating systems besides Windows exist?!? Considering that all systems have the capablity of browsing the web and Adobe has worked so hard to be the document display king, why are they refusing to supply the binaries for the other OSes that exist? If they are unwilling to supply the product for other OSes, why don't they supply the sources and let us build our own? Give us options, not headaches.
Name: Alvaro
Email:withheld
Date: Sunday, December 14, 2003 at 20:17:47


Rant:
Please, release Acrobat for the x86 version of the great Sun Solaris 9 Operating System. Thank you Alvaro Reguly Brazil
Name: Bernhard Walle
Email:withheld
Date: Sunday, December 14, 2003 at 09:24:57


Rant:
It would be really great to see a current version of Acrobat Reader for Solaris x86. I don't really understand why there's a version for SPARC but not for x86 -- it should be just a recompile. However, we also need a Adobe Reader 6 for Unix (Linux, Solaris and others)! And there's no version 4 for Solaris/Intel anymore, ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/unix/4.x/ is empty. Does anybody know where to get the old 4?
Name: Pascal Quesseveur
Email:withheld
Date: Friday, December 12, 2003 at 07:55:12


Rant:
Solaris x86 users really need the current Acrobate Reader version. That should be an evidence.
Name: lewis quenton
Email:withheld
Date: Monday, November 24, 2003 at 21:21:18


Rant:
why not support solaris x86
Name: Ralph
Email:withheld
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2003 at 02:46:17


Rant:
please make an actual version of acrobat reader for solaris x86. Many, many thanks!
Name: Roger Johnson
Email:withheld
Date: Monday, October 20, 2003 at 17:37:43


Rant:
Please! Please! Compile a version of Acrobat 5/6 for Solaris 9 x86 Intel! I can do all I need on x86 Solaris: Netscape/Mozilla+Java+Flash BUT no Acrobat 5/6! Acrobat 4.0 just doesn't work well with the new PDF's created with Acro Reader 6.0 Distiller. Acrobat is suppose to be a cross-platform *solution* isn't it?
Name: Dimitar
Email:withheld
Date: Saturday, October 4, 2003 at 16:18:19


Rant:
Well I think the community of the x86 Solaris users is large enough to deserve Acrobat Reader support.
Name: Ullas Sankhla
Email:withheld
Date: Saturday, October 4, 2003 at 07:21:05


Rant:
To all those reponsible plz bring out a new version of acrobat reader for solaris x86 it is a must for the current viewrs are not as good.
Name: Marco Serantoni
Email:withheld
Date: Thursday, October 2, 2003 at 18:54:04


Rant:
I'm surprised about the missing of the solaris intel version of acrobat and the old releases are no more linked from the web site I'm also surprised that a currenty live OS are no more supported when still present OS/2 releases that is currently not more released by IBM from 10 years.
Name: miguel angel lopez
Email:withheld
Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 at 06:51:02


Rant:
Hello I like work on Solaris Intel OS. Its a very nice OS. I WOULD LIKE THAT ADOBE DEVELOPES NEW ACROREAD VERSION FOR SOLARIS INTEL. PLEASE,PLEASE. THANK YOU
Name: Volmer Haumand
Email:withheld
Date: Monday, September 15, 2003 at 07:42:15


Rant:
Need Acrobat reade for for Solaris 8 and 9 x86 (Intel version)
Name: Neal Pollack
Email:withheld
Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 at 12:30:44


Rant:
I run Solaris x86 from Sun Microsystems on many servers and workstations. It is most difficult not having a current version of Acrobat Reader for Solaris x86. Why would you offer a version for Solaris Sparc, but not for Solaris x86? It would seem logical to find more engineers using commodity x86 hardware for workstation needs, than those using high priced Solaris Sparc systems with an Acrobat reader. If I personally were going to offer only one version of the Adobe PDF reader for Solaris, I would do so on Solaris x86, which will obviously have more engineering workstation users. Most users do not need the full feature sets of Acrobat 6.0. If Adobe were to offer a simple reader like 5.x, it would fill most all needs for viewing PDF documents and files.
Name: Asif Khan
Email:withheld
Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 at 19:49:26


Rant:
Acrobat is a great product for professionals and amateurs alike...and Sun's Solaris 9 OS has come a long way...Developers such as Adobe should keep its support of the Solaris x86 environment in order to maintain comaptibilty as well usability for all those users that are using this great OS... I hope Adobe doesnt dissapoint its users by not covering compatibilty for an OS that is truely one of the best so far.
Name: Michael Ecker
Email:withheld
Date: Sunday, August 17, 2003 at 12:23:09


Rant:
Please continue to develop adobe acrobat reader for solaris x86
Name: Mark Williams
Email:withheld
Date: Tuesday, August 5, 2003 at 12:40:11


Rant:
I thought Adobe Acrobat was about document portability across platforms? It can't possibly take that long to compile (acrobat version 5 at least!) binaries for Solaris on intel. Guess Sun must be telling them to drop support for the Solaris x86 folks.
Name: Kent Blake
Email:withheld
Date: Monday, August 4, 2003 at 11:36:36


Rant:
Please continue to develop adobe acrobat reader for solaris x86
Name: srinath
Email:withheld
Date: Sunday, August 3, 2003 at 14:14:30


Rant:
its very good
Name: Nadina Lungu
Email:withheld
Date: Saturday, August 2, 2003 at 17:57:45


Rant:
To Whom It May COncern: I was trying to learn UNIX and as it happens I had an Intel machine arround and started the installation. It was kind of weired to find out that I cannot read ANY documentation sice most of it is in pdf format. Why should I have to buy a new piece of hardware (ie. a SPARK), when the intelligent soulution is to just download a pice of software? It is interesting enough how there is a version for Linux and not one for Unix which are 2 virtually identical OSes. I hope I will soon be able to download an Adobe Reader for Solaris on X86. Sincerely, Nadina Lungu
Name: Josh M.
Email:withheld
Date: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 at 02:23:06


Rant:
If you release an updated Acrobat Reader I will name my first born son Adobe.
Name: Stefano De Toni
Email:withheld
Date: Monday, July 28, 2003 at 04:04:15


Rant:
Solaris Intel is GREAT on Toshiba Tecra 9100, I miss only Acrobat Reader!
Name: Mariusz Zynel
Email:withheld
Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 at 15:39:34


Rant:
I'm doing quite a lot of typesetting, mostly mathematical texts. Before MathML becomes a widely supported standard, PDF is the only format to make typographically complicated papers viewable on the web.

Take a look at www.ams.org website or other mathematical on-line journal and check what is the most common format for the papers and reviews. Yes, it is PDF. So how can I and my colegues read it without a viewer on our Solaris x86 desktops? Switch to M$? Is Adobe a M$ subsidiary?

Name: Christopher Smiga
Email:withheld
Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 at 09:22:53


Rant:
Many folks are utilizing Solaris x86 in a mobile (laptop) environment; not just servers. This group of people rely on Adobe Acrobat to read PDFs created by the Adobe products. Many people do use it and rely on it for file viewing. Sun Microsystems is working with ISV to increase the number of applications for the Solaris x86 platform. The removal of you Acrobat Reader product cripples the productivity of those who depend on your product. Please reconsider a release of the Acrobat Reader that can be available to the Solaris x86 community. If a small fee for maintaining the product is an issue, please consider that as well.
Name: sp@sunguru.com
Email:withheld
Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 at 07:47:59


Rant:
I hope Adobe will sort out the things about their port of acroread on Solaris x86 and provide the software. Sun should support this and get more software support for Solaris x86 and SPARC. Hope to see soon acroread ltest versions for x86 and SPARC. Regards, Stefan
Name: Bruce Riddle
Email:withheld
Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 at 21:42:56


Rant:
I would think this to be a trivial recompile. However so should the compile for most other products Adobe offers for Solaris.
Please do not banish us from your Portable Document Format.
Name: Sascha Ferley
Email:withheld
Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 at 01:52:07


Rant:
Acrobat is required for solaris x86. Adobe imposes the crappy encryption support for pdf's and doesn't post specs, but won't support all the platforms, and also thus not allowing other pdf viewers to have the capability. How do you think you feel that people who are developers can't finish their development because of the ignorance at adobe to do a recompile of a view where solaris x86 is already a supported os again by Sun. So hear the chant: "Acrobat for Solaris x86"
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