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[mike80808]

I installed the tarball, but manually removed the XN version of the acroread package (but not the acroread-debian package, by re-installing just the acroread-debian package).

Then I installed the Acrobat from tarball, and then changed /usr/bin/acroread to point to the new location /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0 instead of the old /usr/lib/Acrobat5 location.

Anyway, my point isn’t about how I manually installed the thing, but rather a comment on how nice Acrobat Reader 7 is. It looks like the DRM support is close and getting there, so that signed PDFs and the like are handled as easily as unsigned ones.

And to those who thing DRM is bad, the reason I believe DRM in PDFs is a good thing is that it will finally make an electronic file format a standardized, universal legal document. Things like sending someone an NDA and having them digitally “sign” it. Or a tax filing or a business license or a contract. Using faxes to do this is simply inefficient. The contract with my signature is the contract I saw when I signed it. That “fixed in time” property is what DRM provides us, in a world of digital files that can be both copied and modified.
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[danny0085]

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