Re: Re: Revisiting inclusion of AcroTeX/eForms in TeX Live in light of advancements in libre PDF readers

Henri Menke <[email protected]> Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:38:08 +0200
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Dear list (Karl in particular),

I wanted to follow up on the request to include AcroTeX/eForms in TeX
Live. As far as I am concerned, all the features that are used by
pgfplots are now supported by at least pdf.js which is under an open-
source license (Apache-2.0).

Could you therefore please include the acrotex package in TeX Live?

Kind regards,
Henri

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