[tex-live] movie15 and media9
Norbert Preining
preining at logic.at
Sun Mar 18 13:34:00 CET 2012
Hi Mojca,
> "rm movie15, requires acrobat"
I don't know the details, but if pdfs generated with movie15 can only be properly viewed wirh acro*, then it is according to the policy to remove it.
We have removed several times packages that need non-free stuff to be useful, and this policy will not change.
> Acrobat is
> only needed to render the contents,
Well, that is reason enough.
> No PDF viewer that I'm aware of
> supports JavaScript. Does that mean that all TeX packages that also
> support JavaScript inside PDF have to be removed from TeX Live?
No, you are wrong. Only those packages that only support there features via javascript and thus for acro*.
Yes, and those packages will be removed.
Norbert
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