[OS X TeX] slightly off-topic: Acrobat Reader 8

Victor Ivrii vivrii at gmail.com
Thu Dec 14 07:31:07 EST 2006


On 12/14/06, Alain Schremmer <Schremmer.Alain at gmail.com> wrote:
> Alessandro Andretta wrote:
>
> > I found the new Acrobat Reader 8 *very* buggy. When reading the
> > VisualFAQ.pdf by Scott Pakin,
> > certain fonts are missing. (The same file looks perfect with Acrobat
> > Reader 7, or with Preview).

Cannot reproduce this (both in normai and full screen mode). It just
asks you if you want to allow or to block, with the remember checkbox
and then it fires your default web browser (Safari in my
configuration)

With intel computers AR8 is must upgrade (native) and I think with
Windows too (sorry for the mentioning forbidden name): AR7 and A7 on
Windows opens two docs in the same shared window. It would be
inconvenient as it is but we have a Windows machine in Our Seminar
Room with VGA output splitter leading to two data-projectors and in
AR7 trying to run two pdfs in full screen mode on two screens resulted
in fool screen mode: 1 pdf on foreground and another behind it
(invisible). In AR8 at least each pdf doc has its own window (as it
always had on Mac/UNIX).





> > Last night I was reading the "Tex Freak" e-talk by Victor Ivrii (by
> > the way, Victor: EXCELLENT
> > presentation, both in forma AND content!!) and the annoying pop-up
> > cameout saying:
> > "this document is trying to connect to CTAN" -Then the mouse
> > disappeared from the screen,
> > and since I could not click on "Accept", the machine stood in perfect
> > isolation until the screen
> > saver kicked-in, and I could resume using my machine.
>
>
> Well then, I am glad it flatly refused to install on my machine! :-)
>
> Regards
> --schremmer
>
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