Adobe Acrobat -Reply

[Sean Dreilinger]

Hi Michael:

If you're using version 2.x of the Acrobat viewer, you might try Adobe
Acrobat 3, it uses anti-aliased fonts, which are much easier on the eye.

>on this, Adobe Acrobat adds a level of support that not all libraries
>have.   If your equipment budget for this year stopped at electric

The reader is still free and likes to run on one of the major GUI's for
UNIX, OS/2, MS-Windows, or Mac. I think I've even seen a version for DOS
machines!

>Some producers are not producing nice docs, either--I've seen
>some that the nicest equipment couldn't tune to readability or

That's for sure. When Acrobat embeds fonts it doesn't do a very nice job,
IMHO. We had several LaTeX documents that were looking like hell until the
kind folks in Usenet groups <news:comp.text.pdf> and <news:comp.text.tex>
were kind enough to point out some AdobeFYI docs and other useful
information. A search of tech docs on the Adobe web site yields lots of
Acrobat font details, here's the one that made my day:
	<http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/custsupport/SOLUTIONS/3a26.htm>

Hope that's helpful, good luck!
--Sean :-)
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