On Sat 10 Nov 2012, Alan BRASLAU wrote: > Given our interest in pdf production, perhaps we ought to be (more) > involved in opensource pdf viewer development? But I suppose that > acrobat and adobe reader remain the tools having the most widespread > use.
It would certainly be nice to have an open-source PDF viewer approaching Adove Reader's capabilities. I've never seen any moves in this direction, though. The impression I have is that 99% of people only need very basic PDF viewer functionality, and regard most of Adobe Reader's features as bloat. Personally I find this worrying: I'm using Adobe Reader 9 on Linux, Adobe aren't going to release any newer Linux versions, and at some point I will run into a feature I need which is not supported either by AR9 or any open-source viewer. Pont ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
