[pdftex] Acrobat 5.0 / consequences for pdftex

Ricardo Sanchez Carmenes carmenes at bioquimica.uniovi.es
Tue Apr 10 10:13:26 CEST 2001


On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Ricardo Sanchez Carmenes wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Prof Brian D Ripley wrote:
> 
> > The obvious area exists on the ftp site but is empty, for example
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/win/5.x/
> > 
> > is where the pattern says Windows versions will be and the directory
> > exists.
> 
> And the corresponding web area says "coming soon".

And I forgot to add that the success of PDF is very much dependent
on the availability of the free reader, so Adobe would comit a
commercial suicide if they ever decide not support free readers any more.

Ricardo.




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