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Adobe seeks to close PDFs
Authored by: tomem on Jan 23, '05 03:51:18PM

I didn't see any one point this out, so I will.

Reader 7 shuts off Preview and Print to PDF capabilities of the OS X print dialog. So they have gone to some trouble to prevent folks from generating Apple PDFs from Reader. Why would they do that, one wonders? When you get your first Adobe Reader 7 compatible PDF, you find out. Preview cannot display them, and applications like Combine PDFs cannot work with them.

It seems clear that Adobe is trying to regain control of its PDF format, to force folks to buy Acrobat. This seems short-sighted on Adobe's part and I hope Apple is able to keep ahead of them and keep PDF a truly open, cross-platform file format.

On the other hand, I also hope MP4 (AAC) will be kept open by Apple competitors. The temptation to try and close file formats seems irresistible.

TomEM

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TomEM
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Adobe seeks to close PDFs
Authored by: mpmchugh on Jan 24, '05 04:09:50AM

PDF is an open published file specification, and it changes over time. That's called progress. It's Apple's job to keep Preview and the rest of the OS up -to-date with the latest PDF spec. My guess is that Tiger will be fully compatible with files generated by Acrobat 7. This was also the case with Acrobat 6 and Jaguar before Panter arrived.

Regarding the preview and print to PDF features from the Acrobat print dialog, these have never worked with Acrobat, simply becasue Acrobat uses it's own PDF rendering engine, not Mac OS X's. I've run into a few instances where I'd like these to work too, but print previewing a PDF is kind of redundant anyways.

-Michael



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Adobe seeks to close PDFs
Authored by: jiclark on Jan 24, '05 11:43:11AM

I have not installed 7 yet, so I'd like to know if it actually removes the 'Print to PDF' feature set completely from one's system, as the first poster seems to claim, or whether they're just not available in Reader, as the above poster explains is the logical result of Adobe's more proprietary formatting engine. Can someone clarify?

TIA!
John-o



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