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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org