For years Solaris x86 community has been complaining about the lack of a latest version of Adobe Reader® on Solaris™ x86. The latest version, 4.05, was released in 2000 and there have been no updates to it. Solaris for SPARC has a modern version, but not Solaris x86. Adobe plans to release a native Acrobat Reader 9 for Solaris x86 in 2009.
There have been various alternatives including Evince, PDFLaunch which work well with some caveats and user experiences.
- Evince is a multiple document viewer from Gnome community
- PDFLaunch is pdfviewer from, again, Gnome community
- Using Transitive Reader as blogged by Dan A.
- Using VirtualBox
VirtualBox makes life really easy. In its Seamless mode, a user can interact with native Solaris application as well as Windows/MacOS applications. Here is another snapshot of Adobe Reader 8.1.2 running on Windows as Guest on Solaris x86
I had been using Evince or PDFLaunch for all these years. Now, that I have a better alternative in terms of VirtualBox, I do not need those other tools. Best of all, I get to use the latest and the greatest release from Adobe.
Posted at 11:42AM Oct 28, 2008 by kuldeep in VirtualBox | Comments[3] | Permalink
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okular from KDE4 is great, try it!
Posted by Mike on October 28, 2008 at 02:50 PM PDT #
would like 2 give it a trial
Posted by 80.248.14.10 on February 10, 2009 at 02:47 AM PST #
would like to give it a trial
Posted by Maureen Ogwu on February 10, 2009 at 02:50 AM PST #