Also, it's clear to me now that I miscommunicated; when I said "This is a
mischaracterization", I was referring to the claim that "Support files that
are free but can only be used with commercial software (in this case
Acrobat)" applied to eforms, not the description of the policy. Sorry for
the confusion and for being unclear.
On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 10:15 PM Jason Gross <jgr...@mit.edu> wrote:
> > Yes, the *generated* files can be used with other software, but to
> > *generate* the files one needs Adobe Acrobat.
>
> This is perhaps true of some of the features in the acrotex bundle, but it
> is not true of eforms (which is part of the acrotex bundle). The following
> .tex file compiles fine on systems without Acrobat installed (and even
> without needing to enable write18):
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{hyperref}
> \usepackage{eforms}
> \begin{document}
> Field: \textField[\V{foo}]{bar}{15em}{\baselineskip}
> \end{document}
>
> On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 9:37 PM Norbert Preining <prein...@logic.at> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jason,
>>
>> > > Support files that are free but can only be used with commercial
>> > > software (in this case Acrobat) are not included in TeX Live. Since
>> > > ever. And they will not be.
>> >
>> > This is a mischaractarization. eforms.sty generates pdfs which work
>>
>> No, it is not. This is the policy of the TeX Live Team.
>> Yes, the *generated* files can be used with other software, but to
>> *generate* the files one needs Adobe Acrobat. And thus acrotex
>> will not be included in TeX Live. And we will not pick single files.
>> Nor will do upstream TeX Live.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Norbert
>>
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