Experience with the Use of Acrobat in the CAJUN Publishing Project

Adobe's Acrobat software, released in June 1993, is based around a new Portable Document Format (PDF) which offers the possibility of being able to view and exchange electronic documents, independent of the originating software, across a wide variety of supported hardware platforms (PC, Macintosh, Sun UNIX etc.). The fact that Acrobat's imageable objects are rendered with full use of Level 2 PostScript means that the most demanding requirements can be met in terms of high-quality typography and device-independent colour. These qualities will be very desirable components in future multimedia and hypermedia systems. The current capabilities of Acrobat and PDF are described; in particular the presence of hypertext links, bookmarks, and `yellow

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1994
• Where: ECHT
• Authors: David F. Brailsford
• Keywords: Acrobat's Imageable Objects, Adobe's Acrobat Software, ECHT 1994, Internet Technology, Sun UNIX Etc