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[Anders Johansson <ajh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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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