From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/4040 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gaucher Philippe Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Warning about Adobe 8 Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:58:19 +0100 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241019683 11440 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:41:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:41:23 +0000 (UTC) To: Categories list Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Tue Oct 30 10:25:34 2007 -0300 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:25:34 -0300 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1ImqvF-0006bl-Mj for categories-list@mta.ca; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:14:22 -0300 Content-Disposition: inline Original-Sender: cat-dist@mta.ca Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 98 Original-Lines: 29 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:4040 Archived-At: Le lundi 29 octobre 2007 08:05, vous avez =E9crit=A0: > Mike, > I think there may be some confusion here. Adobe Acrobat 8 costs > about $450, and it will produce pdf files from various inputs. I > assume at this price, it will produce files that Adobe Reader 8 > displays properly. Adobe Reader 8 is free, but it only has the > capability of displaying pdf files, not creating them. I wonder if it > is Reader that's the culprit here, by not displaying the ligatures > you list properly if the files are created by some method that > doesn't use Acrobat. If so, there's no need to abandon pdf as a > preferred format - just caution users to view them in Acrobat 7 until > Adobe "fixes the problem" (sic). In particular, using the now- > standard methods built into most (La)TeX distributions should still > generate pdf files that will display correctly on most pdf apps - > Preview.app for Macs and xpdf for Linux or other UNIX-based systems. > No longer being a Windows user, I am not sure what alternative pdf As I already explained to Michael Barr, don't use Acrobat Reader. There exi= sts=20 other excellent pdf file readers. Under linux, xpdf, evince and kpdf (<--=20 excellent). Probably a lot of free pdf readers exist under other systems. S= ee=20 . You don't need to use= =20 acrobat softwares to produce and read pdf files. pg.