Hi Free-PDF-Hackers,
we have been contacted by Adobe, because of pdfreaders.org . All-in-all they seem to welcome the campaign, as they see it as a confirmation of PDF's status as an open standard. However they are "worried" about certain things, like standard-compliance of the named readers.
Anyway, they want to talk with us, so we will have a conference call sometime next week. We don't expect them to announce a free software version of acroread, but we think it is good opportunity to start talking with them. They are taking pdfreaders.org and the free software readers seriously and seem to be very interested in PDF's public perception as *the* standard for printable documents (maybe because XPS is around the corner).
Now our question to you is: * What do you see as a major obstacle to better PDF-Support and/or standard- compliance in the free readers? * Does Adobe in any way hinder the development? * In what ways could Adobe help to improve the free readers? * Is there anything else you think should be mentioned?
You may of course fwd this to other involved developers, but please do *not* discuss this topic on public mailing lists, at least not before our conference call.
Thanks for your help! Of course we will let you know how the call went.
Regards, Hannes