On Sat 10 Nov 2012, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
Given our interest in pdf production, perhaps we ought to be (more) involved in opensource pdf viewer development? But I suppose that acrobat and adobe reader remain the tools having the most widespread use.
It would certainly be nice to have an open-source PDF viewer approaching Adove Reader's capabilities. I've never seen any moves in this direction, though. The impression I have is that 99% of people only need very basic PDF viewer functionality, and regard most of Adobe Reader's features as bloat. Personally I find this worrying: I'm using Adobe Reader 9 on Linux, Adobe aren't going to release any newer Linux versions, and at some point I will run into a feature I need which is not supported either by AR9 or any open-source viewer. Pont