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

[Tina Poole]

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

FrameMaker doesn't not 'touch' other applications. Acrobat
has to work with MS Word, Excel, plus a multitude of other
non-Microsoft and Adobe products. And not only work with it
but be able to plug-in to those applications, e.g. buttons
on toolbars in Word.

We have the same issues with our product which needs to
interface with five or six other applications and any small
change in those applications that we don't know about and
everything it's tears alround...



tina


Tina Poole
MineStar
Information Products and Solutions Division
Caterpillar

PO Box 10606
Adelaide Street
Brisbane Australia

Telephone: +61 7 3329 8134
Fax: +61 7 3329 8101
Email: Poole_Tina_L at cat.com

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


Dov and all:

> This is a good time, though, to
> repeat my warning that you should not attempt to have
> either multiple versions of Acrobat, multiple versions
> of Reader, and/or mixtures of Acrobat and Reader installed
> on a given system. Although it is possible to coerce the
> installers to do that, it is neither endorsed nor
> supported by Adobe. Many, many problems that we hear
> about with regards to anything PDF ultimately get traced
> to attempts to have anything more than one version of
> Acrobat or of Reader installed on one system. In some
> cases problems occur as the result of not fully uninstalling
> previous versions or following the explicit directions of
> the uninstaller to reboot as part of the uninstall procedure.

Dov repeats the by now familiar warning about installing and
using multiple releases of Acrobat.  This has been going on for
a long time now, so evidently a good number of people have
good reasons for wanting to retain multiple versions of Acrobat.

Instead of making this the customer's problem (maintaining two
different releases on different computers and other workarounds)
why not fix it?  If Adobe is in the business of satisfying customer needs,

it appears that a significant number of customers want this to be
implemented.

And don't anybody say it can't be done.  We need to go no further than
our old mate FrameMaker.  I have FrameMaker v. 7.0, 7.1 and 7.2 installed
on my computer and they all co-exist quite happily.  They are there so I
can
troubleshoot problems that my colleagues may be having with the particular

version of FM on their computers.  So, not only can I run all three
versions
simultaneously, but when I impatiently double-click the destop icon too
enthusiastically, I can have multiple launches of the ONE release
running.

Regards,
Hedley

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Hedley Finger
Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist
MYOB Australia Pty Ltd <http://myob.com/au>
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