<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Herb,<div><br><div><div>On 04/06/2015, at 9:01 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Howdy,<br><br>I believe Alain is still on OS X 10.5 using a PPC system. Does Adobe really still support that?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>With a bit of searching, one finds this page.<br><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/">http://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/</a></div><div><br></div><div>The pop-up there claims to have a version for MacOS Intel 10.5.8 .</div><div>Probably won't work on PPC, but he could give it a try.</div><div>It is Reader v.10.1.4, available for OSs up to 10.8.</div><div><br></div><div>Reader 8 and Reader 9 are no longer supported at Adobe.</div><div>I have versions of Reader and Pro all the way back to v6, </div><div>which run under MacOS 10.6.8.</div><div><br></div><div>Reader 11 is available for 10.6 and later</div><div>Reader DC is for 10.9 and later</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>I believe the real problem is that Adobe tends to want to install all sorts of stuff you don't want when you install Adobe Reader (e.g., a Safari plugin so that pdf files are displayed by AR rather than the built-in pdf display). </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Well, this plugin is a very good thing, in my experience,</div><div>supporting a lot of the things that I've mentioned earlier;</div><div>e.g. file attachments, annotations, JavaScript actions, etc.</div><div>In what way do you find it deficient?</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>YOu really have to be careful and make sure you don't let it install that stuff and then go through the preferences and have it un-install other stuff. </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>What kind of "other stuff"?</div><div>Other plug-ins to Safari ???</div><div>Where is the incompatibility?</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Once that's done I have no problem with AR and it certainly can be used for testing things when PDFKit goes wrong; e.g., the font display mess under OS X 10.10.0--10.10.2.<br><br>Good Luck,<br><br>Herb Schulz<br>(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)<br></div></blockquote><br></div><div><br></div><div>Hope this helps,</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ross</div><div><br></div><br><div>
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