On 1 Feb 2006 at 12:26, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > Acrobat reader, older versions, were dogs. The current reader version, > 7, works great on Windows XP and Macintosh. . . .
I have to disagee on Windows. The version 7 reader has overcome the terrible performance problems of version 6, yes, but it has regressed in terms of its onscreen rendering. For instance, line smoothing in 5 and 6 made Finale-produced PDF files look just fine onscreen (no badly drawn staff lines). But version 7 deteriorated in this regard -- line smoothing no longer fixes that. There's also the problem with the plugins not unloading properly from memory when the host browsers are closed down. This results in some PCs not being able to shut down until the Acroread process is killed manually. I've seen this on Win2K and WinXP and on several machines. I won't even go into all the nonstandard interface issues and the settings that don't actually work properly, or the stupid javascript options, or the problems with nonstandard page navigation defaults. Acrobat Reader is not really a Windows program, and it feels like it. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
