On 16/09/10 13:46, pmgazz wrote: > I had a similar heart-searching around Adobe Air - I work with > non-profits for whom fundraising is core - most funders issue > badly-constructed pdf forms and trying to fill these in with Evince is > still a work in progress. I can manage to do it because I know Evince > fairly well and what it can and can't do and don't mind working around > it - my clients were having total nervous breakdowns. > > Getting rid of Adobe's ghastly, bloated and tentacled reader was a > major plus in moving to Ubuntu for me ;) However, my clients really > really weren't coping. I now put Acroread onto Ubuntu Desktops where > people need to deal with pdf forms. Hate it, but there it is. > > And, until I upgraded to 10.04 and BBC iPlayer didn't, I used to > install Air (grumbling all the way) so I can run the iPlayer on my > desktop. I'm really committed to Free Software but I'm not a hermit ;) > > By the way, is there something we could (collectively) do to hassle > the BCC to sort out the iPlayer for Lucid (and Maverick - or is it > fixed on Maverick? I haven't had time to install it yet). > > Paula The adobe air iplayer app works for me on Maverick, pretty sure I have it on a Lucid box too. Works on Maverick in 32 bit and in 64 bit.
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