> In terms of the ability to "see PDFs like they do," having Adobe Reader > on the same system as Adobe Acrobat is not going to assist you. In terms > of proper engineering and QA discipline, such testing should occur on a > system that has only the operating system installed, no "extra fonts" > installed, and Adobe Reader set with all default options. Otherwise, your > tests are somewhat polluted by your environment.
Dov, we use this feature for 'testing' PDFs in which we have enabled Acrobat Reader rights. We have a lot of clients who simply will not spend the money to get Acrobat, so either we give them Reader-enabled PDFs or they send us <<shudder>> hardcopy edits. No idea why, but sometimes that rights-enabling doesn't 'stick', and we've sent a client a PDF they could not add edits to. So now we always open the saved PDF in Reader to double-check it can indeed be edited in Reader (on a separate computer that hasn't got Acrobat, I hasten to add). tori
