Comment Is PDF the Issue or Acrobat/Acroread? (Score 1) 183
We provide xpdf and (Sun's build of) gpdf on our Solaris machines here. On the SPARCs we (and Sun) also provide Acroread and the plugin. I'm more worried about problems in the plugin since that's more likely to get weird stuff loaded. I was about to update it on the SPARCs anyway.
Of course Adobe still refuses to provide acroread for x86 Solaris. Though they do on the SPARC and I am about 100% sure the same source code would work there as well (everything else does...). In fact, why would it be different from any other UNIX/X11 version?
So why can't we get it? Because they refuse to provide it, not on any technical grounds, but just because. They just won't do it because... because they're jerks? I guess. So if the security problem's in their implementation, I'll just remove it from the SPARCs and make all our Solaris machines the same.
