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

[jaerdaph]

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]

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]

Nothing wrong with Adobe Reader 8.

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

 

[TheAuldGrump]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

[Bront]

8 is slightly more hardware intensive, so on an older machine that is sluggish anyway, 7 might be safer.

But beyond that, it's up to you.

 

[TheYeti1775]

If you use the Character Sheet that comes from www.ssa-x2.com you get errors trying to import the FDF saved data in Adobe 8.