Re: papers for archive.org

["Richard W. Travsky" <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>]

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, David Marjanovic wrote:
> Rescued from truncation:
>
> >  Who scans and uploads papers to archive.org..? As far as i can
> >  tell,=20 anyone can.=A0 SO, if you're going to do this, please make
> >  your PDF=20 compatible with Acrobat Reader 5 or later (or better yet,
> >  AR4 or=20 later).=20
> >
> >  "Portable document format" doesn't mean anything when you have to=20
> >  keep downloading the latest version of Acrobat reader. It's idiotic
> >  to=20 make a PDF that requires Acrobat Reader 6 or later. Thanks.=20
> >
> >  Paul P.
>
> Incidentally, I disagree. Acrobat Reader is free, so you _can_ simply
> download the latest version (currently 8). Or do the newer versions not

Actually, 9.something  ;)

> work on all operating systems?
>
> That said, pdfs of scientific papers are rather unlikely to require
> features that weren't yet available in version 3.

Yes and no. I've seen a couple folks here have problems downloading with 
older versions of the Adobe reader.