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SOFTWARE: Acrobat Reader 3.0 for OS/2 now available
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Acrobat Team)
Fri May 30 17:08:22 1997
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 30 May 97 15:07:47 GMT
From: acrobat_for_os2@Adobe.COM (Acrobat Team)
Reply-To: acro4os2@Adobe.COM
Reply-to: acro4os2@adobe.com
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For Immediate Release May 28, 1997
San Jose, Calif.
Adobe has shipped the Acrobat Reader 3.0 for OS/2. This product is
currently available in seven language versions: English, German, French,
Italian, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish.
You can find the OS/2 reader (and other platform versions) by pointing
your Web Browser to
http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html
The non-English language versions will initially be available at
http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/alternate.html
You may also retrieve Acrobat directly by FTP:
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/os2/3.x/aro2?30.exe
where ? indicates one of the following:
d = German
e = English
f = French
i = Italian
n = Dutch
s = Spanish
v = Swedish
NOTE: this product requires Warp and later versions of OS/2. For printing,
Fixpak 26 or later is recommended for Warp 3.0.
The Acrobat Reader 3.0 for OS/2 includes key Acrobat features such as
Internet browser integration, including ability to download Acrobat documents a
page at a time from the Web and view them in the Netscape Navigator browser.
It also includes Acrobat forms, which enables users to easily read and fill
out high quality Acrobat forms on the Web.
The OS/2 version of Acrobat reader also includes Workplace Shell
integration features such as drag and drop printing, dragging files to the
Reader to open, as well as customizable menu fonts. The OS/2 reader supports
multiple independent reader windows, and can be launched locally or from the
network via command-line.
The OS/2 Reader can be installed using CID (hands-off install) in an
enterprise environment using a simple response file which is documented in the
read.me file.
THANK YOU
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On behalf of the Acrobat team I would like to thank all the beta testers
who graciously spent hours of their time, in many cases on-line, to find and
report problems with Acrobat. It has been tremendous working with a close user
community that is technically knowledgeable as well as dependable. There is an
army of you out there, but I'd like to give special thanks to the following
people:
Mike Ball
Brian Converse
Jaime Cruz,
Chase Landreth
Hilmar Schlegel
Norman Waite
Mike Wingert
We would also like to thank Netscape's Martin Warnett, Mark Sehorne, and
Micheal Perks for all their help in getting the two products integrated.
And we'd like to thank IBM, especially the following people whose help has
been indispensable:
Dave Clark
George Menz
Sam Yang
Mark Van der Wiele
and Especially Mickey Mann, whose resourcefulness and relentless
cheerleading kept us going.
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The Acrobat for OS/2 Team is:
Engineering:
Srini Gowthaman Bill Law Phil Ydens
Quality Assurance
Greg Christopher Loan Nguyen
Marketing:
Harvey Alcabes (halcabes@adobe.com)
With significant contributions made by
Chacko Neroth, Ying-shen Wen, Greg White, and Grant Bowman.
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