Upgrading to Adobe Reader 8.0 from 7.0 - Any reason NOT to?

jaerdaph · Nov 30, 2007

I want to upgrade my Adobe Acrobat Reader from v 7 to v 8 (I'm running Windows XP Home Edition SP2). Anyone know of any good reasons I might not want to do that, or any problems with version 8?

Thanks in advance.

Thanee · Nov 30, 2007

Only reason I can think of... The interface is slightly different.

I find it a lot better, though.

And you can always uninstall and downgrade, if you keep the old installer.

Bye
Thanee

Ranger REG · Nov 30, 2007

Nothing wrong with Adobe Reader 8.

But just to be on the safe side, uninstall v7 before installing v8.

TheAuldGrump · Dec 1, 2007

Actually I have both 7 and 8 on one of my machines - 8 has problems with the older DRM files. I still have a few from back when DTRPG had a free download every week. Adobe seems to have dropped the concept.

The Auld Grump

jaerdaph · Dec 1, 2007

Thanks for the advice, gang.

One more question, can you still extract graphics/images from PDFs with Acrobat Reader 8 like you can with 7? I find that very useful, especially with game products like counters and terrain tiles.

Glad to hear Adobe is finally starting to realize that DRM is the suck.

Man in the Funny Hat · Dec 1, 2007

Oddly enough, yesterday I found that Adobe 8 was not opening some of my older PDF's (DRM I assume) and then spontaneously shutting down while claiming it was being ASKED to inappropriately shut down. I updated it to 8.1 which solved the shutdown problem but haven't checked yet on whether it now again will open those older PDF's that it said it wouldn't.

Thanee · Dec 2, 2007

jaerdaph said:
One more question, can you still extract graphics/images from PDFs with Acrobat Reader 8 like you can with 7? I find that very useful, especially with game products like counters and terrain tiles.

Snapshot Tool? Yep.

Besides, you can do that with a simple screenshot via Windows (and some simple image editor like IrfanView to cut the image out), anyways, regardless of whether the tool allows it or not.

Bye
Thanee