[pdftex] FYI: Feature Requests for Adobe Reader

Martin Schröder martin at oneiros.de
Thu Apr 3 09:10:41 CEST 2008


2008/4/3, Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe at math.utah.edu>:
>  In Acrobat Reader 5 on Unix systems, Ctl-W Ctl-left-arrow closes and
>  reopens the document at the current page.  Unfortunately, this feature
>  disappeared in later Reader releases, and that, plus their 4x larger
>  memory footprint and much longer startup time, means that I rarely use
>  them.

Yeah, I tend to use kpdf instead. Unfortunately AR is still the only
PDF viewer on Linux with support for Layers, which I need.

[...]

>         Follow the menu path <TT>File</TT> -&gt; <TT>Print</TT> -&gt;
>         <TT>Advanced</TT> and select the button labeled
>         <TT CLASS="highlight">Print as Image</TT>.  That button
>         appears to be available only on Mac OS X and Windows versions
>         of the product.
>
>  The Unix Acrobat Reader's lack that critical button.

Then submit that to Adobe via the blog; I know that Acrobat 9 is in
beta, so there's still hope.

Best
   Martin


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