[pdftex] layer-based presentations

John Culleton john at wexfordpress.com
Sat Nov 13 03:28:27 CET 2004


On Thursday 11 November 2004 14:03, Pawel Jackowski wrote:
> 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?

I believe I answered this in the above paragraph. I neglected to note that 
I run Linux although I have a Win 2000 partition for software testing 
purposes. They don't crash but they don't use the layers feature either. 

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John Culleton

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