re: Warning about Adobe 8

[Robert L Knighten <RLK@knighten.org>]

Michael Barr writes:
 > 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
 >

What is the context?  I've been using Adobe Reader 8 on Windows since it first
came out and have never seen this, very definitely including pdf files created
by pdflatex on both Windows and Linux.  As a quick check I just created a
number of pdf files in various ways on both Windows and Linux and viewed them
in both places using both Adobe Reader 7 and Adobe Reader 8 and was unable to
see any difference at all.

-- Bob

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Robert L. Knighten
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