Adobe Reader 8.1 is out and that means it is time for me to update it on the network. This is one of those programs that we store on the network to make installation easier on new computers or those that had been neglected at an older version. The problem is that Adobe Reader doesn’t have a direct link. It goes through a downloader in IE, and GetPlus in Firefox.
I had always used FireFox for getting the install file, but I figured that was no longer an option. Fortunately I still has Safari installed on my computer so I used it to access Adobe and download the file directly from here: http://ardownload.adobe.com/. . ./AdbeRdr810_en_US.exe.
At home I am in the process of rebuilding my machine. It is a perverse hobby for a geek to decide on occasion that the OS installation needs to be scrapped and rebuilt from scratch but I have a new faster hard drive and it deserves a clean install. I’m not about to stick Safari on this machine, I won’t even let Quicktime or iTunes on it, so I grabbed a Firefox User Agent Switcher and visited Adobe pretending to be on an Opera browser (something else I’m not planning to install).
I’ll remember this option for Adobe 8.2
When I downloaded your installer for Adobe Reader 8.10 I got the following error message: “The Patch Package could not be opened…..”
Bob
I should remove that link. It is nearly a year old, and it is .02 versions off current.