A member of the Manchester Fellowship has asked me for advice regarding a PDF document she has received from a British charity.
She was confused because when she opens the PDF in a Free Software PDF reader all that appears is a full page advert for Adobe 9 (see adobe-advert.pdf attached).
It actually appears that there are two separate PDF documents embedded in this PDF, but that all that is viewable is the Adobe advert initially, or at all in some non-Adobe readers.
Presumably the charity distributing this PDF is unaware of this because they are using Adobe reader, and so don't realise that they are spreading this advertising.
I found this quite shocking and wanted to share it with the list. Next steps are presumably to contact the charity and notify them of the despicable behaviour of their Adobe software :)
Thanks,
Sam.