[pdftex] layer-based presentations

Pawel Jackowski jackos1 at poczta.onet.pl
Thu Nov 11 20:03:46 CET 2004


John Culleton wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 November 2004 04:19, Hans Hagen wrote:
> 
>>The Thanh Han wrote:
>>
>>>Sounds very interesting, unfortunately I don't have acrobat reader to
>>>enjoy it, since AR is not avail for the platform I am using (linux on
>>>powerpc). Sigh.
> 
> 
> 
> AR 5.x won't work and Xpdf won't handle it either. If Adobe wants to 
> encourage use of this level of pdf then they should upgrade the Linux 
> version of Acrobat Reader to match.  Most users are on Windows but many 
> content providers are on Linux. 

Indeed. Ghostscript don't support that features either and crashes on 
it. What about xpdf and linux versions of AR? Not supported or crash?
Hans H. has mentioned that his layer-based presentation works fine on 
Mac (thanks Hans for that sample!). Any other expiriences with viewers?

Pawel



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