Yahoo to place adverts in PDF files

As reported by the BBC, Yahoo have reached a deal with Adobe that allows them to place adverts in a panel inside Adobe Reader. This is the first time that Adobe have allowed dynamic adverts inside their software.

Luckily, there is a myriad of alternatives now that the PDF format has been opened including:

For Windows:

• Foxit Reader (Shareware)
• CadKas PDF Reader (Shareware)
• Sumatra PDF (OSS)

For Linux:

• Evince
• gPDF (Part of Gnome)
• KPDF (Part of KDE)
• Okular
• Xpdf

For Mac OS X

• Skim
• Preview

So, for the more computer literate of us, this won’t make a lot of difference anyway.