Le lundi 29 octobre 2007 08:05, vous avez écrit :
Mike, I think there may be some confusion here. Adobe Acrobat 8 costs about $450, and it will produce pdf files from various inputs. I assume at this price, it will produce files that Adobe Reader 8 displays properly. Adobe Reader 8 is free, but it only has the capability of displaying pdf files, not creating them. I wonder if it is Reader that's the culprit here, by not displaying the ligatures you list properly if the files are created by some method that doesn't use Acrobat. If so, there's no need to abandon pdf as a preferred format - just caution users to view them in Acrobat 7 until Adobe "fixes the problem" (sic). In particular, using the now- standard methods built into most (La)TeX distributions should still generate pdf files that will display correctly on most pdf apps - Preview.app for Macs and xpdf for Linux or other UNIX-based systems. No longer being a Windows user, I am not sure what alternative pdf
As I already explained to Michael Barr, don't use Acrobat Reader. There exists other excellent pdf file readers. Under linux, xpdf, evince and kpdf (<-- excellent). Probably a lot of free pdf readers exist under other systems. See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PDF_software>. You don't need to use acrobat softwares to produce and read pdf files. pg.