On 07/24/2017 05:39 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
Next thing was to read at least 3D PDFs generated by CAD programs.
Then I found out that only the abandoned Adobe reader can do this.
I don't recall if anyone mentioned this (the thread is getting a bit
long), but Adobe Reader 9.5.5 is available for Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and
maybe some other Debian-based distributions. I assume it's not the
latest version of Reader, but it's fine for my purposes (which,
admittedly, do not include CAD output). Again, I'm not sure if it's
available for Manjaro.
FWIW, I've also had to put up with the occasional important program not
available (at least that I can find) under Linux. Most recently, my
school installed a firewall that initially lacked a Linux client at all,
then had one that wouldn't install properly. Fortunately, an open-source
client for a different firewall product works reasonably well, but
sorting this out had me cursing in multiple languages. (You know its bad
when Americans, notoriously monolingual, run out of expletives and have
to go to other languages.)
Paul
