More on Adobe reader 8

[Michael Barr <barr@math.mcgill.ca>]

A man named Pierre McKay, one of the real tex gurus has now written that a
large archive of files rendered into pdf by Ghostcript are now unreadable
in Reader 8.  My main point is that dvi should remain our ultimate format.
Even when the viewers do not render the dvi file correctly, all the
information is there and can be converted to pdf by whatever converter we
have available.  And authors should be encouraged to provide, if at all
possible, files that do render properly in dvi format.  This means avoid
rotated letters and avoid, I much regret to say, diagram packages that
work properly only in ps or pdf format.  One of the things that makes
xypic (not to mention packages based on it) so remarkable is that it
manages to do all it does without using such tricks.

Michael