Re: [NTG-context] Rendering differences between PDF viewers

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Alan BRASLAU wrote:

On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:54:03 +0200 Hans Hagen wrote:

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(AR might have flaws but so do all other viewers I've seen.)

With one MAJOR difference: for Acrobat reader, one is dependent on the whims and desires of Adobe (and its paying market); the other pdf viewers are open source. AdobeReader *is* the reference pdf-viewer. Every pdf for general use should be checked at least with the latest AdobeReader under windows, which is currently one of the best pdf viewer. For the (pdf/lua)TeX community, all the viewer based on xpdf/poppler are also important, because (pdf/lua)TeX have a consistent part of code from them, so a bug in xpdf/poppler can be also a bug in (pdf/lua)Tex. Other viewers are useful (mupdf which is now 1.0rc1 , sumatra pdf for windows, just to list a fews) but not as the previous ones.

-- luigi