From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/4037 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Barr Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Warning about Adobe 8 Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:35:04 -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 1241019681 11433 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:41:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:41:21 +0000 (UTC) To: Categories list Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Mon Oct 29 19:46:58 2007 -0300 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:46:58 -0300 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1ImdJ1-0004v6-5M for categories-list@mta.ca; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:41:59 -0300 Original-Sender: cat-dist@mta.ca Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 95 Original-Lines: 44 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:4037 Archived-At: I have to admit that I never tested it, just copied the complaint from texhax, usually reliable. I just tried it on a file created by dvipdfm (I rarely use pdftex or pdflatex) and it seems fine. I have version 8.1.1. So perhaps it was an early bug, now corrected. But my main point--that we cannot tie our future to commercial software that the proprietor can change at will--remains valid. Michael On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Robert L Knighten wrote: > 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 > >