RE: PDFs

Andrew

I have over-written my older versions of Adobe Reader so can't test that on my
machine. However, I do recall trying to open Acrobat 5 files in Vs 4 and
finding I couldn't. I think David's response below (ie we need backward
compatibility) is confirming that to be the case. Is my interpretation of your
answer correct David?

Denise 

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-----Original Message-----
From: David Poehlman [mailto:poehlman1@home.com]
Sent: Friday, 26 October 2001 11:56 PM
To: Denise Wood
Subject: Re: PDFs

as long as the $ is the bottom line, accessibility won't be achieved.
we need backward compatibility which they will not give us.
----- Original Message -----

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Arch [mailto:amja@optushome.com.au]
Sent: Saturday, 27 October 2001 12:47 AM
To: Denise Wood
Subject: Re: PDFs


Hi Denise,

I have just read all the WAI-IG discussion with interest - it is basically what
we say to folks in our workshops. BUT I have one question that someone might
have answered off-line (or you might know the answer to) - is a PDF5 file
viewable in Acrobat 4 and/or Acrobat 3? This becomes an accessibility issue for
technologically illiterate people - often older Australians - who can't [for
whatever reason] upgrade their software, even if it is free.

Cheers,  Andrew
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