[Gs-devel] Adobe Acrobat 5 problems: heads up

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

This reposting of a message I sent to several local users should be of
interest to ghostscript developers, since changes to, and problems in,
PDF files affect us directly.

>> ...
>> Adobe has recently released Acrobat 5
>> 
>> 	http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/
>> 
>> for Macintosh and Windows
>> 
>> 	http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/systemreqs.html
>> 
>> As with version 4, there is no word of UNIX support.  Evidently,
>> millions of installed, and stable :^), UNIX systems, with user bases
>> several times that, are not significant in the lofty corporate world
>> that Adobe lives in.
>> 
>> MacOS X is not fully supported, but Adobe says that they will do so
>> for this product release: see
>> 
>> 	http://www.adobe.com/products/adobesupportsOSX.html
>> 
>> The University of Utah Office of Software Licensing has not yet
>> received Acrobat 5 distribution media, so I have not yet been able to
>> install it.
>> 
>> However, as with any new major software release, the first users of
>> Acrobat 5 are already reporting bugs, and the first bug overview that
>> I've come across is at the site of one of the commercial TeX vendors:
>> 
>> 	http://www.micropress-inc.com/acr5bugs.htm
>> 
>> You should definitely read it before deciding if/when/where to install
>> Acrobat 5.
>> 
>> Unfortunately, the problems affect not only sites that upgrade to 5.0,
>> but also other sites who did not, but who need to read PDF files from
>> the upgraded sites, sigh...
>> ...

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