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[opensuse] Preferred PDF Reader
\ William Hammond (11 May 2008)
. \ Randall R Schulz (11 May 2008)
. . \ Gabriel Stein (11 May 2008)
. . . \ JB2 (11 May 2008)
. . . . \ Fergus Wilde (12 May 2008)
. . . . \ Carlos E. R. (12 May 2008)
. . . . . \ Ken Schneider (12 May 2008)
. . . . . . \ Carlos E. R. (12 May 2008)
. . . . . . \ Patrick Shanahan (12 May 2008)
. . . . . \ Kevin Dupuy (12 May 2008)
. . \ Hans Witvliet (11 May 2008)
. . . \ Carlos E. R. (11 May 2008)
. . . . \ Anders Johansson (11 May 2008)
. . . . . \ Carlos E. R. (11 May 2008)
. . . . . . \ Anders Johansson (11 May 2008)
. \ John Meyer (11 May 2008)
. . \ John (11 May 2008)
. . . \ Randall R Schulz (11 May 2008)
. . . . \ John (11 May 2008)
. . . \ Carlos E. R. (11 May 2008)
. . . . \ Randall R Schulz (11 May 2008)
. \ Randall R Schulz (11 May 2008)
. . \ Sam Clemens (12 May 2008)
. \ Per Jessen (11 May 2008)
. \ Ben Kevan (11 May 2008)
. \ David C. Rankin (12 May 2008)
. . \ Randall R Schulz (12 May 2008)
. . . \ David C. Rankin (13 May 2008)
. \ Fergus Wilde (12 May 2008)

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Subject:Re: [opensuse] Preferred PDF Reader
Group:Suse-linux-e
From:Anders Johansson
Date:11 May 2008


 
On Sunday 11 May 2008 21:20:44 Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Sunday 2008-05-11 at 17:17 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:
> > By the way, it isn't that the "creator can know you are reading it", it
> > is that internet resources can be embedded in a file, causing acroread to
> > try to download them. It can be used for tracking, but it's not the
> > primary purpose
>
> It's not that. It is that the pdf file can contain scripted code that runs
> when the file is opened. And one of the things it can do is send something
> "home".

Indeed, but as I said, as far as I know, in later versions of acroread it
doesn't happen automatically. You have to explicitly allow it to use the net

Anders
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