Solaris X86 Acrobat wishlist Survey

Have you ever tried to get Acrobat for Solaris and got frustrated only to realize that it is not available for Solarisx86 but it is for SolarisSparc.

NOT ANYMORE! As of March 2, 1999 you can now get a copy of the beta version 4.0 of Adobe Acrobat reader for Solaris x86 at: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/unix/4.x/beta/

Well this was an opportunity 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.

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Run the other alternative xpdf-0.80, a precompiled version is available at:
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They did it finally, Go Get it at ftp://ftp.abobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/unix/4.x/beta/

It ought to be a trivial matter to port Acrobat Reader to the Solaris x86 platform; Adobe ought to be able to type "make" at a Solaris x86 prompt and get the same source to compile that compiles on the Solaris SPARC platform. This just seems like a no-brainer to me. So why hasn't it happened yet? More importantly, when will it happen?

Recompile, I beg you.

I wish that they would make Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86 !!! THIS IS NOT A PURELY MICRO$OFT WORLD YOU KNOW.

Why should we pay? Its only a matter of recompiling the source.

As web servers become more and more popular, more and more of those will be running on Solaris x86. Acrobat has made it's way in our lives on most popular platforms, and it only seems fitting to have it on Solaris x86 as well. Not to mention that Solaris x86 proudly displays an Adobe banner when it boots.

AFAIR, PDF stands for *Portable* Document Format. But without support for Solaris x86 (as well as FreeBSD (I know that I can run Linux version of Acroread in FreeBSD :) ) I'm ready to use unsupported version, though :-)

I find it unreal that a company like Adobe, who is a supposed leader in imaging software, does not support a platform/OS that is becoming so common in today's high volume document imaging arena. The lowcost of x86 machines, combined with the explosion of UNIX users should be a slap in the face for Adobe. I guess we should forget PDF's, they are of a by gone day. Try Feith System's Djvuer, www.feith.com, and replace those bulky PDFs with a robust imaging utility that is not only powerful, but made by a dynamic company who keeps up with customer needs.

I think that if Adobe wannt to promoted their Acrobat they should make its (Acrobat's) documents readable anywhere! Including Solaris x86.

It is in Adobe's best interest to support as many platforms as possible. On Solaris x86, please type "make" and . Thank You.

Solaris X86 is a real alternative to Microsoft Shitsteme

A strange omission - it must be one of the easiest transitions Solaris/SPARC -> Solaris/x86

Acrobat Reader should be free.

Solaris x86 is real.

The idea behind Acrobat reader is the same as for Java, ie one standard for all platforms - so why no Solaris x86 version? Surely, it's a straight forward recompile of your solaris version?

One of the few platforms that isn't fully supported by Adobe, lets change that.

Shouldn't require anything more than a new "make", since it already works fine on SPARC Solaris.

This is nothing but a good idea.

Solaris on Intel is REAL! With OEM partners such as Toshiba, Fujitsu, Siemens Nixdorf, NCR and Intel, Solaris on Intel will go places it's never been before. Please produce a version of the Adobe Acrobat reader for Solaris on Intel (2.6 or better).

This should be a *no brainer*. I think ;-) the command is "make" on the x86 with the sparc source code. It supposed to be completely compatible.

Just recompile it already!

Gracias

Why pay for a platform when all the others are free? I see no reason why X86 should be singled out.

Hey, Sun, listen to the stream of the defense at the m.s. trial: people do want programs that work together (well, okay, but maybe not at the expense of market suppression).

It should be free , as for other OSes

PDF will not continue to be the de facto standard for electronic document distribution unless the reader is available for all major platforms. Three cheers for Linux support but X86 Solaris is also a must.

Well if its free for other platforms why to pay?

already own it just not for x86

I have previously requested a Solaris Intel version of Acrobat from Adobe (over a year ago.) . I received a nice reply stating my request had been noted. I even offered to pay back then...If you don't have the resources, send me the source code. I'll sign an NDA and non compete and compile it for you guys. We'll release it as beta with no support...

acrobat reader should be built into Netscape

What did PDF stand for again?

We need Acrobat Reader for Solaris x86... we will need to pay for a product that is free on other platforms?

I can't wait for it

I already bought for $$$$ Adobe FrameMaker, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat distiller What else should I do? Maybe I could offer the PC I had to get to run these under Windows!

It should be free just like it is on every major platform. Linux too!

of course I can pay $xx for reader, but why, if there is FREE reader for sparc... also, PLEASE make Your pdf creators to create readable pdf files for all platforms, not just M$...

Umm, gee, it's really simple. Copy the source over to an x86 box, type make, simple. This is only a matter of a few minutes of some developers day. This isn't a massive porting effort.

Hi! How much shame should be poured on Adobe in the week when Sun is jumping about saying how madly easy it is to port between Sparc & x86. Crikey, if you can get the Linux version to work on Solaris, then THERE IS NO EXCUSE ADOBE! It's also an insult to x86 customers when the HCL is published in PDF as well, and SUn have to send us off to a freeware/shareware site!

It should be easy.

SunSoft is well aware that Adobe does not support Acrobat on Solaris Intel. Only when SunSoft makes it worth Adobe's time and effort will anything happen.

Of course, it's "free" on other systems. However, I'm willing to pay a little for the convenience of not having to reboot into Win95 to run it.

I think it's bad that they haven't compiled a Solaris X86 yet.. When it's available for almost all other Unix systems

If Adobe want pdf to be the multimedia standard, then they should definitely supply a Solaris x86 version. It is not like it is a massive job to produce a version for Solaris x86 when they already have one for Solaris SPARC.

Acrobat Reader is currently free for all platforms, and while I'd definitely pay something like $20-$30, I'm not sure that Solaris/x86 version has to be an exception to the rule. Also, while I'd love to see a port of the A.R. to Solaris/x86 platform, I'd like to say that I personally don't feel myself too restricted with only xpdf or [m]gv+gs combo: they cover almost 100% of all PDF documents I encounter on the Web.

Time for Adobe to get off its lazy, myopic ass, and start porting to an ally's OS

... but copies and licenses of Acrobat Reader should then be free as they are for other platforms

Supporting Solaris X86 when Solaris SPARC is already done is a no-brainer. I suspect some collusion here between Sun and Adobe. A similar problem, but I suspect more difficult, exists with Rational's Purify debugging software. And the common element here is SUN. <<<<<------------<<<<<

Its free everywhere else, so I would expect the same here. Also, I haven't run into too many situations where you can't just take the Solaris SPARC code and recompile for it to run under Solaris x86 (barring assembly code of course, which they should already have for linux and other x86 based boxes). Heck, so its compiled and quickly tested, but they rely on the compatibility with SPARC for most of their quality assurance and then release it as "unsupported." That's be fine by me.

Not having a .pdf reader on Intel Solaris is the major reason we have no Solaris/x86 desktops in any dept. We use .pdf for almost everything, including sales, purchasing and invoicing.

I wouldn't mind paying $20 - $30, but if it's free for other platforms, then I feel it should also be free for x86.

I second the "just do it" comment. Having ported my own app to x86, it isn't hard at all: just recompile and test.

i use html because acrobat ain't on solaris/x86. come on doods, this should be a recompile of sparc version.

At work I don't write PDF files, I use html even if it isn't as nice looking because netscape will run on my Solaris laptop and Acrobat won't.

Puhleeze learn how to listen to your customers! If you need any technical help I'm ready, willing & able to do the port for you!

It's inconceivable that Adobe would not want to support another platform considering they're trying to make PDF an Internet standard, and as others have pointed out, they already support several UNIX versions on Intel.

..where's SUN (Soft) ? What are they doing ?

We've got 20+ Solaris/x86 boxes, and would like to have the Acrobat Reader for all of them. No German version, just the U.S. original.

It's already free, that is the way it was suppose to be. At least for this product strategy.

Anything but NT. Heh.

Sure would make my life a lot easier. I hate moving PDF's to the Sparc to view them.

should not be very difficult...

In the words of the Great Nike, Just do it!

Hey, there *are* Solaris x86 users out there? If its a simple matter of an unsupported port, why hasnt this already been done? Please port to Solaris x86!!! Thx!

You b@#$!#$s ! Give me an acrobat reader !!!

It simply doesn't make any sense at all...

Pdf files are useless to me at this point. Too many hoops to jump through. I have never gotten a file to print from xpdf. We really need an Acroread port to Solaris x86.

Maybe even more than that if it goes to a committee :-) We have slightly more tahn 50 machines that we need acroread for. Currently we use a hack to remotely run it on a SPARC machine

Currently one x86 (plus one Sparc). Expect two more x86 systems soon. Several clients would be interested too. Commercial application docs are coming to them in PDF format and they need to be able to read them.

I would love for Adobe to get in gear and realize that now that Solaris x86 is reasonably priced, things need to be developed for 2-3 of the major Unix flavors on the intel platform.

we've got 100+ solaris/x86 boxes, we'd be interested in putting acrobad reader on all of them

I would like to see support for the multitude of other OS'S in the work place and at home that we use, not just Windows and Mac.

I'de like to see Adobe Acrobat Reader just because of the lack of things I cannot view with the alternatives on Solaris X86

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