Lori DeFurio

September 20, 2007

Supported PDF functionality - Mac OS 10.4

I'm always being asked -- how does the implementation of PDF on my Mac compare to what Adobe offers in Acrobat and Adobe Reader. So, I went to PDF guru, Leonard Rosenthol , and he prepared a chart, which I then jazzed up using InDesign to create layers and added interactive buttons in Acrobat to allow you to select different views of the document to see what Apple can Read/Write, Read Only, or have Partially Implemented on the Mac platform (OS 10.4/Tiger). And I've outlined what is not supported at all

applePDF02.jpg apple-unsupported.jpg.
      Figure 1. Default view                              Figure 2. All white items are unsupported

As background information - the PDF Specification - version 1.x through 1.7 - has been published by Adobe and made freely available on our website. Vendors choose to implement features/functionality as it makes sense for their use.

And of course... if there is an error in this chart, please let me know.

Posted by Lori DeFurio at 1:32 PM on September 20, 2007

Comments

Tony Harmer — 6:03 AM on October 3, 2007

Hey Lori - this is a terrificly useful resource - thanks!

Anne-Marie — 8:20 PM on October 20, 2007

Excellent resource.

Though ... my stupid Firefox automatically opens PDFs in Mac's Preview (though the Finder opens them in Acro).

So right after it downloaded, it opened in Preview and I'm like ... hmmm ... these buttons aren't working ... LOL.

Anne-Marie — 10:14 AM on November 30, 2007

Hey Lori, any plans on updating this for Leopard?

Werbeagentur — 9:10 AM on January 26, 2008

Thanks Lori for the pfd_reference... Usefully :)

Werbeagentur — 6:43 AM on January 29, 2008

Hi Lori,

Many thanks for the great informations and for sharing the document.

Many thanks from Germany,
Werbeagentur

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