[tex-live] movie15 and media9

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Sun Mar 18 17:16:48 CET 2012


2012/3/18 Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk>:
> Victor Ivrii <vivrii at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Martin Schröder <martin at oneiros.de> wrote:
>> > 2012/3/18 Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>:
>> >> Linux. AR can freely be downloaded. I have seen AR included on many
>> >> CD's with other products, maybe it would even be legal to distribute
>> >> it with TL (I do not know, I have not studied the license).
>> >
>> > No, it isn't. You need permission from Adobe. And anyway: AR isn't free.
>>
>> I am afraid that this interpretation would axe from TL the host of
>> packages which rely upon Adobe Reader for parsing (either embedded
>> players or javascript or comments).
>
> that is the intention.
>
> unfortunately, alexander grahn gave karl berry a list of packages that
> use features of acrocr*p reader.
>
> myself, i'm worried about hyperref (i don't know enough to be sure
> whether it relies of acrocr*p reader, for some of its many functions)...
>
Hyperlinks work in ghostview but I am not avare of any PDF viewer that
can display outlines. If this happens, almost all documents will be
nonfree because they rely on hyperref.
> r
>



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