Any Advantages of Reader 7 over Reader 6.0.3?

[Jay Bollyn]

Any Advantages of Reader 7 over Reader 6.0.3?

Any problems with Reader 7?

Thanks for any info.

:-) Jay

[Roger Faucher]

Jay:

Here's a link to what Adobe says about it:

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

I can vouch for the faster part...it seems quite a bit faster to me. I've been installing 7 everywhere and no problems to report (as is usually the case with Adobe Reader, at least for me).

Make a great day!

Roger

[Gary Cooper_1]

Hi Jay,

The most noticable improvement for me was the fact that you can now use Ctrl+Scroll to change the magnification of the page - a facility that's been long needed.

It does seem a little quicker too.

Regards,

Gary

[Jay Bollyn]

It does seem like Reader 7 is faster than Reader 6. I am going to install R7 on a few test machines. We are heavy users of PDF files, both viewing and printing. So this needs to be a carefully planned rollout, not an impulse decision.

:-) Jay

[Omar Senussi]

Concur withe the guys re performance.. I found 6 a bit of a dog after v5.. but 7 definitely seems to put it back on track..

[Jay Bollyn]

Is there any way to remove/gray out the 'Lock Toolbars' function on the R7 toolbar? (after the toolbar has been locked)

I don't want public users to be able to change the R7 toolbar after I have locked it.

How about a way to remove the advertising button on the right side of the R7 toolbar?

:-) Jay

[Omar Senussi]

Remove Yahoo button?? Right click on the toolbar and uncheck "search the internet"

[Jay Bollyn]

The Yahoo button is easily removed, but as long as the 'Lock Toolbars' function is still available, the user can unlock the R7 toolbar and change the button layout, which I do not want to allow, on public PCs.

The advertising button I was referring to says various things, like 'One PDF, many files', 'Adobe Reader 7.0', 'PDF eBooks read one for free', etc. Really annoying.

:-) Jay

[Omar Senussi]

I managed to blank it by adding a couple of tools eg edit & find and dragging them into the area.. At least you don't see tha panel you are referring to!
Still looking into the lock function..

[Uwe Zessin]

I might have overlooked it on older versions, but greatest thing for me is that I can now search in all .PDF files in a directory tree:

CONTROL+SHIFT+F, Look in -> Browse for Location

On the other hand, it seems to develop some deep links into the operating systems as some changes required a reboot :-(

[Gary Cooper_1]

Hi Jay,

Check out InstallShield Tuner 7.0 for Adobe Acrobat - http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2709

It allows you to create a transform file which you can then use when you install Reader 7.0 on client PCs - allows full cutomization of the client installation.

I've recently discovered it and was pretty impressed - dead easy to use.

Regards,

Gary

[Jay Bollyn]

Thanks Gary,

Tuner7 takes care of most of the things on my wish list. Here is what remains on the list:

1. Remove 'search the Internet (using Yahoo!) button;

2. Lock the toolbar;

3. Remove or gray out the 'lock toolbar' option, so users cannot unlock it.

I think one can probably do these things with Advanced Tools - Direct Editor, but I did not want to wade into that feature with only a vague idea of what I was doing.

If someone could figure out what I need to do to finish this up, that would be great.

:-) Jay

[Jay Bollyn]

Is there really NO WAY to configure this??

:-) Jay

[Gary Cooper_1]

Hi Jay,

You might want to try posting on the Adobe reader forum - http://www.adobe.com/support/forums/main.html

I'd be grateful if you'd let us know how you get on.

Cheers,

Gary

[Jay Bollyn]

Thanks Gary,

I will check that forum and post back.

I have a new system going online this week, so I can't get to this right now.

:-) Jay