[pdftex] FYI: Feature Requests for Adobe Reader

[Bob Howlett]

Ross Moore wrote:
> Hi Victor,
> 
> On 05/04/2008, at 4:37 AM, Victor Ivrii wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 11:56 AM, George N. White III  
>> <gnwiii at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  Emacs+DocView on Fedora 8 displays a file (formatted with pdf(la)tex
>>>  1.40.3) that AR and xpdf both render as blank pages.
>> Could you post an example?
>>>  I think you are talking about X(treme)PDF, not the sort of PDF most
>>>  TeX documents would produce.
>> Some TeX documents produce forms, bundles, etc. I suspect that when
>> people would more think about online publishing rather than producing
>> poor man copies of paper articles, the use of all these things would
>> increase
> 
> My thoughts exactly.
> 
> Here is an example that I'd like people to test,
> in different version of PDF reader software and
> different OS versions.
> 
> 
> Get this mathematical paper:  (no subscription required)
> 
>     http://www.austms.org.au/Publ/Bulletin/V72P1/pdf/721-5019-LoPo.pdf
> 
> Go to the page numbered 21  (actually page 9 of 18).
> Easiest is to click on the Figure 5 or Figure 6 bookmark.
> 
> Scroll down a few lines, if necessary (according to your
> window view) until you find the reference to Figure 7.
> The '7' should be blue, indicating a hyperlink.
> 
> Move the mouse over the 7, ready to click.
> You should get a red rectangle, outlining a button.
> Click the button.  What happens for you?
> 
> There are three possible actions that may occur, depending upon
> your software and Javascript settings.
> 
>   1. an image pops up;
>    (Check its tool-tip and see if you can move the image around.)
> 
>   2. you active the hyperlink, and skip to where Figure 7 occurs;
> 
>   3. nothing at all!
> 
> Oh, and another possibility   :-)
> 
>    4. your reader, or OS freezes or crashes.
> 
> 
> The intended action is 1. (which works in AR on the Mac).

This is quite groovy!
It works nicely for me on Windows XP in Firefox, IE and Opera.

> If this doesn't happen then either Javascript support is
> turned off (and you should get 2. occurring),
> or Javascript is unsupported or severely limited within
> your browser software.
> This ought to qualify as a bug worth reporting;
> or fixing it could be considered as a feature request.
> 
> 
>>>  PDF seems be suffering from the old tradeofff where features are
>>>  added at the expense of reliability.  If people are adding  
>>> features, I'd
>>>  like to see some designed to help with debugging:
> 
> 
> Hope this is useful.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 	Ross
> 
> 
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