On Feb 19, 2008 6:06 AM, Akemi Yagi amyagi@gmail.com wrote:

I know acroread is not part of CentOS but many people use it. Thought forwarding this post on the SciLinux mailing list might help those who use acroread on CentOS-4.

=== excerpt === The "latest" version officially compatible with RHEL4 is acroread-7.0.9, but this currently has open security holes (CVE-2007-5663 et al). http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa08-01.html still says (as of today, i.e. 2 weeks after the initial announcement):

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Acrobat and Adobe Reader 7.0.9 and earlier versions are also affected by these vulnerabilities. Adobe will provide further information as to the nature of the vulnerabilities via the company's Security Bulletins and Advisories page once updates are available for all affected versions of Acrobat and Adobe Reader.

acoread-8.1.2 (which is patched) requires RHEL5 as per Adobe (libgtk+2.6 ?). It appears that despite this requirement, it happily runs under 4 as well.. at least for the limited use we foresee over here. === end ===

For the entire post, see:

http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0802&L=scientific-linux-us...

AR 8.1.1 would not print landscape graphic pdfs (on my machine, anyway) properly at all. It also had scaling problems (would not scale images to fit the printer).

Does anyone know if these problems have been fixed in 8.1.2? (Or where I could go to look?)

Thanks.

mhr