Acrobatlateral thinking : Implement simultaneous multiple releases [was "RE: Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0"]

[Charles Beck]

FWIW, what you say should work for Acrobat does work for me now. I have
been using this approach for a number of years without any apparent
problem. I keep hearing that others have problems, but I have no idea
specifically what they are--and in any case, I apparently do not. 

Is it possible that all the hullaballoo is just Adobe's attempt to
coerce everyone to keep up with the latest offering, so they do not have
to continue to support older versions any longer than absolutely
necessary?

Just wondering...
Chuck
 

Hedley wrote:
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Subject: RE: Acrobatlateral thinking : Implement simultaneous multiple
releases [was "RE: Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0"]

Tina:

> I would think it would be very difficult to get multiple version 
> working together that do not interfere with each other.

Difficult, but not impossible.  Software manufacturers should not blame
their customers and put problems on their shoulders that can easily (or
difficultly) be solved by the manufacturer.  And "difficult" is
relative: 
when
you have a near-monopoly of the graphics arts market and are earning
hundreds of millions of dollars, "difficult" is both easy and cheap.

For a start, when I double-click on
an FM file, FM 7.2 always opens.  So there is no reason why Acrobat
versions cannot do the same -- the last installed has all the registry
pointers directed to this version.  As for toobars and plug-ins, they
could all be installed by the latest installation.

If you wanted to use an older version with a file you would have to
launch 

it and use File > Open, just as I do with FrameMaker 7.0.

Regards,
Hedleyu

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