[pdftex] FYI: Acrobat Reader 5.0.5

[Hans Hagen]

At 09:28 AM 5/21/2002 -0400, David Goldschmidt wrote:
> >>>>> "story" == story  <story at uakron.edu> writes:
>
>     story> Acrobat Reader 5.0.5 for Linux and Sun Solris SPARC has been 
> loaded
>     story> to the adobe web site.  See
>     story> http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
>
>For the benefit of us non-expert pdflatex users, could you briefly
>review the advantages of upgrading from version 4?

to mention a few:

-  more robust widget/javascript support
-  better font antialiasing
-  better graphics
-  a couple of bug fixes (also known as new features)
-  transparency

there are also disadvantages:

- bigger
- slower load
- more mem demanding
- new bugs (also known as features)

Hans

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