Subject: RE: OT: Adobe Acrobat Pro and Adobe Reader on same client

[Mike Wickham]

On 1/23/2014 1:17 PM, Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net) wrote:
> 	Do people here feel that it is necessary to check a PDF in a "Reader only" environment if that PDF looks fine in Acrobat?
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>

I don't normally feel it is necessary. My understanding has always been 
that Reader is basically the viewing portion of Acrobat. So if it 
doesn't look right in one, it won't look right in the other. I see 
Acrobat as Reader, plus a bunch of other features that we have to pay 
for. I don't know if that's accurate, but it's my impression.

Having said that, there are a few times that I've found it necessary to 
check a file in Reader (on a separate computer). I've never seen any 
differences in _appearance_ (assuming that I remembered to embed all 
fonts, which I always do because I have my joboptions set to do so by 
default), but I have seen problems in functionality. Examples include 
forms that didn't work in Reader, but did work in Acrobat, because I had 
some setting wrong. Or the review feature not working-- again, because 
it wasn't set up right beforehand. So I may check a form in Reader, or a 
PDF being sent out for review.

Mike Wickham