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| From | "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> |
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| Newsgroups | alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.windows7.general, comp.text.pdf |
| Subject | Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? |
| Date | 2025-08-29 22:56 +0200 |
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On 2025-08-28 04:38, J. P. Gilliver wrote: > On 2025/8/28 2:12:24, Marion wrote: >> On Wed, 27 Aug 2025 16:49:16 +0100, J. P. Gilliver wrote : > > [] > > >> I've been running Adobe Acrobat 6 (the writer) since the beginning of time. >> <https://i.postimg.cc/C5TdD4Vs/pdf07.jpg> >> >> Mainly because it runs on as many PCs as install it on using the same >> registration number (which I bought almost billion years ago). > > But presumably isn't public domain!> >> It works on almost all PDFs & those that it doesn't work on almost always >> be downgraded with tricks to the version that Adobe Acrobat 6 works on. > > In terms of "advanced features", I've never yet encountered a PDF which > I couldn't open with whatever PDF reader I had on the computer I was > using at the time. I am vaguely aware that there are things like forms > that can be filled in, and those may need other than a _very_ old > reader, but I've never had to use such a form. (I'm not in the USA, > where I gather tax returns may involve such documents.) You can open them, but they don't actually "work" and you might not notice. The trouble is that some PDF include javascript code that has to run. It does things, typically calculations on the fields. AFAIK, only adobe handles it "correctly". Well, it is their baby. Firefox handles it now, but mostly incorrectly. Most PDF viewers don't do javascript at all. -- Cheers, Carlos.
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Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-28 01:12 +0000
Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-08-28 03:38 +0100
Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-28 22:15 +0000
Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-08-29 03:51 +0100
Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-29 04:07 +0000
Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-08-29 20:16 +0100
Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-29 19:44 +0000
Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie> - 2025-11-05 11:28 +0000
Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie> - 2026-04-18 23:03 +0100
Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-04-19 00:39 +0200
Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-29 23:01 +0200
Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-29 22:56 +0200
Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing? Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2025-11-19 14:42 +0300
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