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Simultaneous Install of Adobe Acrobat 4 and 6

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GizmoFreak

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For an unusual reason, it would be very convenient to have installations of both Adobe Acrobat 4.0 and 6.0 on my machine. Is this possible? I have a single drive with one partition. Will they both install? And will it run relatively stable?

What do you guys think?
 
Yeah dual boot OS is too much trouble for the benefit. Virtual PC too probably. I was hoping they'd just install next to each other, but looks like no luck? Thanks for the suggestion though.
 
Nobody's said that you can't do it yet. Why don't you give it a whirl and see what happens? I mean, they are just two different programs that you can install in different directories right? Just hope that they don't require different versions of dll's with the same name in some system directory. I don't know if it would matter what order you install them in but that might be something to think about as well.

Care to share this "unusual reason" with us?
 
Originally posted by: LiLithTecH
There really isn't anything that you could do in Acrobat 4
that you can't do in 6 and do it better.
Click to expand...

I have to lift a lot of text from pdf files. For some reason, ever since I upgraded to Acrobat 6, the copy table function doesn't work on certain files. The program doesn't seem to recognize certain tables as tables. Works fine on Acrobat 4 however. This is only on a small number of files, but enough that having both versions would help me out a lot. Otherwise, if I stick to just version 6, I have to copy text from these files and do the text-to-columns in Excel which can be a bit of a chore.
 
I'm a little hesitant to give it a whirl without some idea of what to expect. Especially since my natural inclination is to think it won't work. As you mentioned, I feel like each version of the software would require system files of different versions located in the same WINNT folder. And the Acrobat installer tries to search for previous versions of the software too, to replace it.

As for my unusual reason, I hope my previous post cleared it up.
 
Have you tried any alternative pdf viewers to see how they act? Chances are something else would still install alright.
 
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