Santa came early, bringing a little gift from Adobe. Adobe Reader < an cla ="hw">( eacute;e Acrobat Reader) Version 8.0 is out and gue what... It's Universal Binary and it's kinda fast. Not like lightening fast, but practically zi y. Thanks, Adobe!Then again, since I have to complain about something (because you all say I do, so I must), I'll tell you how a oyed I am that I have to download an a lication that I don't want from Adobe in order to download an a lication that I do want from Adobe. When you go through the download area and click the download link, you get the familiar "Thank you for downloading Adobe Reader. Your Adobe Reader software download will start automatically." But that's a lie. The Reader software i 't downloaded. The Reader Download Manager is downloaded. So you have to download that, i tall it (grrrrr...), and then it launches and starts downloading the actual program you wanted to begin with, which takes much longer on an 8 M cable co ection than it should, and then you finally get the actual Adobe Reader i taller. But wait, you're not in the clear yet. After it finally i talls, it automatically launches, bugs you a few times about updating the Safari plugin and the immediately starts downloading an update for the Adobe Updater a . I nodded off at that point so I have no idea what ha ened next, but eventually I opened a PDF with it and noticed how much faster it launched than Adobe Reader 7.0.8. Three dock bounces to launch i tead of 6. That must mean it's twice as good, right?
Ok, I've gotten that out of my system now. Did I mention the pretty new red lash screen? That's kinda nice.
Reader 8 requires Mac OS X v. 10.4.3 or later, weighs in at just over 20MB, and it awaits your call.
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