On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Michael Lake wrote: > Michael Still wrote: > > Adobe has announced that they wont be porting Acrobat 5 to linux. > > I tried to find that on the Adobe news site but could not find it.
There have been a series of posts on comp.text.pdf about this issue. I base my statement on that. My current understanding is that Distiller for Unices has been ditched, and that the reader is in doubt. > Do you have a reference for that. Several weeks ago I emailed State > Parliament about their pending legislation now being produced in > Acrobat 5.0 which meant that as a citizen using a UNIX like O/S I am > not able to read their legislation. Thats against their policy. They > achnowledged the prob and were looking into it. That assumes that this is a single vendor field. The spec is open, people can write their own readers -- for instance xpdf and gv. Mikal -- Michael Still ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) UMT+11hrs -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
