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JS wrote:
> I can't find much information about exactly what is in Adobe's 
> update for Acrobat Reader/Pro 7.0.5.  The only info I have found 
> is copied below.
> 
> These features are not very useful in my case 

I agree. And they're just bloat if you ask me.

> and I don't want to 
> risk a jinxed installation by applying such a large update 
> unnecessarily.
> 
> Are there any other reasons to install this update such as 
> security or stability or bug fixes?

See my final remark.

> -------------  START -----------------
> support for Firefox 1.0, Mozilla 1.7 browsers 

Already exists in earlier version.

> Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, and Vietnamese language text entry & display

None of which I, at least, speak. Do you?

> the Typewriter tool, the existing Text Box tool with a different 
> set of default properties, which allows you to type text anywhere 
> on a PDF document - a simple solution for filling out forms 
> without interactive form fields.

This pretty much is already the case.

> READER UPDATE (9.1 MB)
> http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3113
> 
> PRO UPDATE (25.4 MB)
> http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3110

1. Upgrades to Acrobat Reader quit working in Windows versions older 
than XP starting with the version after AR 6.

2. The problem with Adobe is that each new version of any program that 
they have runs noticeably slower than the previous version. Not only 
that, but often files produced by their programs in a newer version are 
larger in size than those produced by an earlier version. In both these 
regards, Adobe is no different than Microsoft and both are feeding the 
Wintel consortium's agenda.

Freeware solutions like other PDF readers mentioned in this thread are a 
much better solution.

-- 
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