If you can get Dreamcast Linux running, there is no reason why you could not compile xpdf or similar and view pdfs that way. For a standalone application, I don't know of any, but I believe that one of the unofficial browser releases might support pdf -- not sure on that one. There aren't any legal issues involved AFAIK - the pdf specs are freely available.
I tried it with a few PDF files and it didn´t work. A few years ago PDF was mainly used because of the fact that texts couldn´t be modified or copied.
That depends on what the user decides to do when they create the PDF file. It may also just be that Acrobat Reader (yes, I refuse to call it Adobe Reader) won't let you do it -- I know the full Acrobat product will allow you to select text.
I tried it with Acrobat and OpenOffice and it didn´t work.
And because the user decides if the document can be modified it would probably be easier to let the PDF file be a PDF file and think about how to show it on the Dreamcast, instead of converting every single PDF document into a "whatever".
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