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Adobe Reader installer download speed differences: FTP much slower than HTTP

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/17

The FTP download is much much slower than the http one:

4.2 MB/s – 73.4 MB of 73.4 MB: http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/11.x/11.0.08/en_US/AdbeRdr11008_en_US.exe

119 KB/s – 24.6 MB of 73.4 MB: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/11.x/11.0.08/en_US/AdbeRdr11008_en_US.exe

This over the same 50 megabit fiber connection.

So basically you have to:

  1. Browse the ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/11.x  for a version in your language (en-US for intance has the youngest full install at ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/11.x/11.0.10/en_US/ as younger versions only contain update MSP files, for instance in ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/11.x/11.0.16/misc/)
  2. Copy the download URL
  3. Replace the ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win with http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win (you cannot browse the latter as it genrates “Not Found; The requested URL /pub/adobe/reader/win/ was not found on this server.”)
  4. Download the URL that you just assembled

–jeroen

Posted in Adobe, Adobe Reader, Power User | 2 Comments »

Various Adobe Flash Player download links (including standalone downloads)

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/29

A few links to make sure you can get a Flash version for a machine that is not internet connected:

(when I wrote it, I needed the Online or Offline installer for Flash Player 11 for Internet Explorer on Windows ).

–jeroen

Posted in Adobe, Flash, Power User | Leave a Comment »

It looks like everything signed by an Adobe Code Signing Certificate can be malware

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/29

If I read Inappropriate Use of Adobe Code Signing Certificate my conclusion is that anything signed by the Adobe Code Signing Certificate since 2012-07-10 potentially can be malware.

As a precaution, I will manually revoke the certificate on all my systems (that’ll take a while!). If anyone knows how to automate that process, please post a comment showing how to.

Hitching on a trusted certificate of a big software company comes close to the ultimate hack: trojaning signed malware in the distribution of an OS vendor.

–jeroen

via: Inappropriate Use of Adobe Code Signing Certificate « Adobe Secure Software Engineering Team (ASSET) Blog.

Posted in *nix, Adobe, Android Devices, Apple, HTC, HTC Sensation, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod, iPod touch, Linux, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Opinions, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment »

Solution for PDF viewing issues in Adobe Reader 9.3.3 / Chrome 5.0.375.99 (There was an error processing a page. There was a problem reading this document (107).)

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/08/02

Edit – 20100813:

The problem is not completely fixed; still some PDFs are behaving odly. So have have disabled “Allow fast web view” in the Adobe Reader preferences (see below for steps) once again.

Edit – 20100812:

This below problem is fixed in the Chrome version 5.0.375.126 from the stable channel which got released 20100811.
Thanks commenter Jacques for reporting this:

… after installing the new fix (Chrome 5.0.375.126), all PDFs now open without error in the Chrome browser.

To install the fix, open the Chrome browser, click on the “wrench” icon (to the right of the address bar), and select “About Google Chrome.” A button in the About window allows you to get the latest update.

Original:

In the past, this used to work fine, but lately I often get this error message when viewing PDF documents in Adobe Reader 9.3.3 in Chrome 5.0.375.99 on Windows 7 x64 Ultimate and Windows XP SP3:

There was an error processing a page. There was a problem reading this document (107).

Sometimes I get these errors instead: Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Adobe, Power User | 6 Comments »

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