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Unexpected features in Acrobat 7

Posted Mar 30, 2005 21:52 UTC (Wed) by bert.kenward (guest, #28573)
Parent article: Unexpected features in Acrobat 7

Despite the negative issue here, you might actually consider the
usefullness of Javascript in PDFs for things like form filling,
calculations etc. The free PDF viewers have a decent way to go before
supporting the advanced features of PDF like this and presentation modes
and full transparencies, layer support etc.

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Posted Mar 31, 2005 4:32 UTC (Thu) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]

I want a PDF viewer. I want to know that the PDF document I view will not try to do anything funny.

See also the discussions regarding the "safe mode" of gs and xdvi.