From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/4033 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Barr Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Warning about Adobe 8 Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:06:06 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241019679 11413 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:41:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:41:19 +0000 (UTC) To: Categories list Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Sun Oct 28 20:16:29 2007 -0300 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:16:29 -0300 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1ImH6c-0006sp-Pp for categories-list@mta.ca; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:59:42 -0300 Original-Sender: cat-dist@mta.ca Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 91 Original-Lines: 19 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:4033 Archived-At: Whatever you do, do not upgrade to Adobe reader 8. I found this on the texhax list. >>Has anyone else been clobbered by the discovery that Adobe Acrobat 8 >>tacitly suppresses all ligature glyphs of the fi, fl, ff, ffi, and ffl >>sort and displays blanks in their place. They do this without warning, >>so that a file which displays perfectly well in Acrobat 7 is made >>unreadable in Acrobat 8. >> It turns out that files converted (from the ps file) by the distiller (which costs something like $500) do not have this problem. I guess Adobe is tired of free use of their format. At TAC, we still consider the dvi to be the official format. Michael