[arachne] Re: Adobe swings and misses as PDF abuse worsens

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From: Jason <jasorn@xxxxxxxxx>

> I'll eat my hat if you can convince even 80% of those 150 to do anything
> as a unit. I bet if
> I posted how great arachne is, 40 people would
> chime in that it sucks worse than IE.

> But I think we might be surprised if we worked as a unit for this kind
> of thing. Maybe not
> adobe but I bet if we could pool our wallets
> together and actually buy some things as a unit
> we might see some response.

Well, the real problem is that there are not enough DOS users among
these 150 people, at least not enough who mostly work in DOS and thus
might be interested in an updated DOS version of Acrobat Reader.

On the other hand, I have been working with Ghostscript for so many
years now that I hardly miss an updated AR for DOS. In fact, I regard
GS as the direct result of Adobe neglecting other platforms for too
long, and consider the PDF standard no longer to be defined by Adobe
but rather by what GS supports and any features that Adobe comes up
with that GS doesn't support to be non-existant.

Also, I view PDF mostly as a means to store documents for printing,
and so all features a PDF file contains that are not printable are
lost on me.

I actually like PDF since the alternative would mean that documents
would probably only be available in MS Word format, but I think it
makes a bad choice for a browser plug-in. I have even Firefox
configured to download PDF files instead of displaying them - not that
I could ever make it display more than the first page of a PDF file,
that is - in a window that would stay on-screen until I quit FF.

Regards,

Udo

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