Acrobat 2.0 [multimedia systems]

Summary form only given, as follows. Acrobat 2.0 can play an important part in multimedia systems. The PDF file format and Acrobat viewers allow the faithful, high-quality reproduction of printed matter in electronic form. The Acrobat approach is useful in areas where: the visual structure of a document conveys information, legacy information cannot be re-authored, there are legal or artistic requirements on page fidelity, or documents require sophisticated formatting. With Acrobat Distiller, any PostScript document can be converted to PDF, preserving PostScript\´s rich imaging model. Acrobat allows the creation of hyperlinks within and between documents, and links to World-Wide Web URLs-becoming "active" documents in the World-Wide Web, not just a "leaf format". The Acrobat architecture is extensible-new objects and functionality may be added through a "plug-in" mechanism, which may extend the hypermedia features of the application. Acrobat 2.0 includes functionality that supports OLE 2.0 embedding, AppleEvents, and Lotus Notes/FX integration.