Hi all,
* Leonard Rosenthol lrosenth@adobe.com [2009-02-03 04:31:42 -0800]:
Unfortunately, the lack of standards support in the free readers that you have listed mean that you can NOT use those products to "view PDF files" - at least not every possible PDF document and/or not correctly.
I can point you to numerous PDF that are posted on public web sites that will not display correctly in those readers :(. That's a problem that needs to be solved before recommending such products to end users. And it's not PDFs that are being created by commercial solution - open/free PDF creation tools such as OpenOffice, pdfTeX, Scribus, etc. all are capable of creating PDF documents that will display incorrectly (or not at all) in the tools you have listed.
I have forwarded it to Georg, too.
<mk spontaneous mode> I think Adobe should offer a Free Software reference implementation. And Adobe should not offer non-free software to end users, that's unethical ;) </mk spontaneous mode>
Best wishes, Matthias