


        Jim Plumb Reports on What's New With Acrobat 2.1?

 Whats's new?

 Mostly good news for people on NT and Sun plat-forms. The
 Adobe Acrobat Reader v2.1 can now be run on the following:

      SunOS(TM) 4.1.3 & 4.1.4 Sun SPARC Solaris(R) 2.3 & 2.4 Hewlett
      Packard HP-UX 9.03 and above Windows NT 3.5 (or later), Windows 3.1,
      and Windows 95 OS/2 2.11 or later in Windows compatibility mode.

 One thing you should know is that release 2.1 does not change the format of
 PDF files. Exchange and Reader 2.0 can open and view PDF files as before,
 but some functionality has been added to the Reader to enable some Plug-ins
 to work with it (see below). At this time I do not know if there is
 anything new with Exchange or Distiller in Release 2.1. Once I get any
 information on that I will pass it on.

 Some info gleaned from Adobe's Acrobat Web area: Adobe's ATM technology
 for rendering Type 1 fonts has been built into Acrobat Reader 2.1 for
 Windows so it is no longer necessary to install ATM on Windows systems.
 Previously, you needed ATM running to be able to use the Reader. Acrobat
 Reader 2.1 accepts some specially enabled plug-ins, such as Weblink and
 Movie. This allows Acrobat Reader users to take advantage of new
 capabilities in PDF files created with Acrobat Exchange,  for example
 following WWW  URL links or viewing QuickTime and AVI (Win only) movies
 within a PDF document. Although Reader 2.1 is Win95 compatible, it is not
 yet Win95 logo compliant. This means they will run under Win95 but may not
 meet all of Microsoft's guidelines for complete Win95 compliance, such as
 various user interface elements, long filenames, etc. A Win95
 logo-compliant verions of Acrobat Reader is scheduled for early 1996.

 For those with HP III printers (PCL) you should upgrade your printer
 driver. You need the file HPPCL5.EXE available on CIS and from Microsoft's
 download service (206-936-6735). Adobe is also offering a several new FREE
 plug-ins for use with the Acrobat Reader 2.1 and Acrobat Exchange 2.x See
 the Acrobat Web site for details (http://www.adobe.com/Acrobat)







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