Adobe Acrobat Reader version 10/11 & Ubuntu 14.04

Question

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 desktop. I have enabled the partners repo & installed Adobe Reader 9.5.5 OK. Unfortunately, I need Adobe Reader version 10 or 11 for the particular .pdf file I'm using. If anyone is interested, the .pdf file is a file supplied by UK's HMRC for Company Returns which requires certain Trust settings to be made. Can anybody tell me where I can download an appropriate (to Ubuntu 14.04) Adobe Reader 10/11 install file? PS I've tried Adobe's web site & internet searched.

Solution

maybe you can try to install the Adobe Reader with Wine.

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the last native version was adobe reader 9, newer versions are only available for Windows and MacOS.

Comments

[Charles Green]

Adobe decided that all us Linux users don't amount to anything in the world, and stopped releasing Adobe Reader for linux a while back.

[Barafu Albino]

Ask that company to provide you a Windows Licence or something. Tell them that if they provide an encoded (to PDF) file with none or obscure way (in this case) to read it - that means they do not provide you the file at all.

[cylgalad]

What about using Evince instead? Anything is better than Acrobat Reader anyway!

[DJCrashdummy]

i would recommend pdfreaders.org for an overview of the alternatives.

[John Rose]

I tried installing Adobe Reader with latest version of Wine (from Ubuntu Wine Team). It installed OK but didn't work: some dll problem but I forget what it was.

[John Rose]

No point in trying alternatives as it needs special Adobe Reader trust settings.

[DJCrashdummy]

as described in the link: you will need wine 1.7 and winetricks.

[DJCrashdummy]

it was just a comment to point out some alternatives for other users reading this...