[MacTUG] Acrobat Pro on managed macs

Matthew Oliver m3oliver at uwaterloo.ca
Mon Jun 21 09:39:10 EDT 2010


Having the same problems over here with Acrobat 9.0. I came across the tip of modifying the xml file but it didn't work for me either.
I absolutely hate Acrobat!!! and would throw it away if the students here didn't require the print tiled functionality it provides...
It especially frustrates me that Adobe won't even acknowledge there is a problem!


-Matt

On 2010-06-18, at 3:42 PM, Donald Duff-McCracken wrote:

> Ya I saw that one (man I have been reading to many 'help me get acrobat
> running' postings these days), and I have not tried it as there are too many
> differences in my situation to make it not apply to me:
> 1) It is a different symptom, Acrobat Pro is not crashing on me, just
> insisting on an admin password to install stuff I do not want
> 2) This issue is also referring to network accounts, and I have my macs
> setup as mobile accounts (and I think this is significant to this persons
> situation)
> 3) It has to do with Acrobat 9 and
>    a) there are differences between Acrobat 8 and 9 issues (in fact
>       there are differences between solutions for 8.0 and 8.13)
>    and
>    b) hell will freeze over before I pay one red cent to Adobe for an
>       Acrobat Pro upgrade!!!
> 
> As I have gone through all the things that we use Acrobat Pro for, I realize
> that my other tools can do 99.9% of them. Preview has gotten pretty powerful
> for merging PDFs and deleting/rearranging pages, and Photoshop and
> Illustrator can handle the printing oversized PDFs in tiled output. The only
> other thing some students use Acrobat Pro for is for Creating form-based
> PDFs and the occasion form-based PDF that does not format well in Preview.
> But these needs are rare and can be accomodated in a PC lab that has Acrobat
> Pro. (It is a sad day when Adobe software can install easier on a windows
> box. This whole Acrobat thing has made me believe "big Steve's" rants about
> Adobe becoming a 'lazy' company and treating Macs as a second class
> citizen.)
> 
> 
> But thanks for getting back, Dani! Please do not take any of my hostility as
> directed towards you or you suggestions, Adobe is really in my bad books
> these days. To the point where I am chaning my mind about CS5.
> 
> If any one else has any suggestions, let me know, and I promise I will try
> to contain my anti-adobe spittle, haha. I am formally stopping pursuing
> trying to fix this unless
> 1) I get a lead from you guys (that may be hard)
> 2) My boss tells me to waste more time on this (unlikely!)
> 
> Thanks...
> don
> 
> On 10-06-18 1:52 PM, "Dani Roloson" <daroloso at mfcf.math.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> 
>> http://forums.adobe.com/thread/300239
>> 
>> I plan to try the one at the bottom some time.
>> 
>> Dani
> 
> 
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