Adobe SVG Viewer to Be Discontinued


Posted by hritcu apropos SVG on the Web on Fri Nov 10th, 2006 at 17:45:53 BST

Adobe has decided to discontinue support for Adobe SVG Viewer starting from January 1, 2008 (End of Life FAQ). They even plan to remove Adobe SVG Viewer from the Adobe.com download area on January 1, 2009, and redistribution by third parties is not allowed by the licence. This development is not surprising after their acquisition of Macromedia, and there is hope that by the time Adobe SVG Viewer is discontinued there will be mature alternatives for all the Internet Explorer users.

UPDATE: Due to pressure from the SVG community, Adobe have agreed to extend the distribution of their SVG Viewer indefinitely, even though there will not be any new version developed.

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Adobe SVG Viewer to Be Discontinued | 17 comments (17 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
Adobe (3.75 / 4) (#13)
by dhw (dhwilson@breathe.com) on Sun Sep 16th, 2007 at 17:40:03 BST
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I just find adobe so dominanat in the market place - forced downloads and all

bad (2.00 / 1) (#18)
by tete on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 15:23:07 BST
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that's for bad customers

Open source (1.00 / 1) (#15)
by vkd (alcom@vkdgroup.com) on Tue Sep 18th, 2007 at 13:34:42 BST
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Bring on open source

"... to be discontinued" (none / 0) (#1)
by stelt (svgonsteltenpower.com) on Wed Nov 15th, 2006 at 19:32:14 BST
(User Info) http://wiki.svg.org/index.php?title=Ruud_Steltenpool
would have been a better title IMHO

Adobe changed the EOL statement again (none / 0) (#3)
by stelt (svgonsteltenpower.com) on Sat Dec 16th, 2006 at 11:37:00 BST
(User Info) http://wiki.svg.org/index.php?title=Ruud_Steltenpool
After Jan. 1st 2009 you can still download ASV from adobe.com/svg

not suprised - but bad for consumers (none / 0) (#4)
by margrets on Thu Dec 21st, 2006 at 17:45:52 BST
(User Info) http://www.margretsloan.com
Yeaghh, I agree it is not suprising, but moves like this are bad for consumers, and it is really a thorn  in my side when I can not go back into retora software mode sometimes. I'm sure they think this is for thebest and will be making improvements in other areas, but I have found myself wanting my OLD verison of musicmatch jukebox, and get no longer get it.. I'm sure yahooo thinks it's new version is so much better, but I for one prefer the older version, and it can't be found anywhere. So I hate it when big companies pull some crap like this. Margret Sloan

Not Good (none / 0) (#5)
by gent00 on Sun Aug 5th, 2007 at 23:01:48 BST
(User Info) http://www.onlineflashgames.org
Not good for customers : /

good (none / 0) (#6)
by Felsefe (info@anarsist.org) on Sat Aug 11th, 2007 at 07:13:38 BST
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i think this is ood.

Not suprised (none / 0) (#7)
by Films on Fri Aug 17th, 2007 at 15:07:54 BST
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Not suprised - but bad for consumers.
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and Firefox? (none / 0) (#8)
by Cindy B (cindy@trafficbunnies.com) on Sun Sep 9th, 2007 at 12:57:26 BST
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So, what was that about IE? Oh, and yeah - this is not ideal for consumers, but I can see why they would do it.

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Money, money.... stick to open source (none / 0) (#9)
by drew27 on Sun Sep 9th, 2007 at 15:16:16 BST
(User Info) http://www.eco2you.co.uk
I'm really not a fan of big corportaes, and this is why.
I stick to open source where I can, maybe they will come up with something for IE. Thank you, Drew

Adobe (none / 0) (#10)
by drew27 on Sun Sep 9th, 2007 at 15:44:34 BST
(User Info) http://www.eco2you.co.uk
I don't like adobe for this very reason, money, money, money.... Thank you, Drew

Adobe (none / 0) (#11)
by Trev0006 (trev0006@pacbell.net) on Thu Sep 13th, 2007 at 23:51:59 BST
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Open source will be number one in 5-10 years, the big corp money worshipers will be in trouble then.

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AVG Adobe (none / 0) (#16)
by stanco (webmaster@stancoservices.com) on Tue Sep 18th, 2007 at 13:58:56 BST
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Missed the link - anyone?

adobe... (none / 0) (#17)
by vasil on Wed Sep 19th, 2007 at 12:25:55 BST
(User Info) http://www.the-movie-library.com/
we waiting for news, but decline now - its not right from Adobe's side.

Adobe SVG Viewer to Be Discontinued | 17 comments (17 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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