[arachne] Re: Adobe swings and misses as PDF abuse worsens
- From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <sheywood@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:13:14 -0500
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On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 12:37 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote:
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
>
> Hi L.D.,
>
> What a great line "having spent 48 non-stop hours one day" Your
> frustration is clear.
>
> But if "even burger flippers" can afford a decent computer perhaps
> your daughter should have her own computer. Of course, then both
> computers can go on the fritz at the same time and you'll never get any
> sleep.
>
> My solution has been not to upgrade very often and keep my minimal
> essentials on more than one computer.
>
> But I'm not up-to-date and never will be. I dislike PDF's on principle.
> I can read text in any format, so don't see the reason to have the
> text delivered in the format du jour. Now they want to embed flash
> animations in pdf's.
>
> God help us.
>
> Sam Ewalt
> On Sun, March 1, 2009 11:12 am, L.D. Best wrote:
<snipped>
Why do you dislike pdf's in principle?
pdf's are far more compatible with everyone than any of the documents
in the format of that snitty and peculiar and bloated closed source word
processor that all of us Arachne fans have learned to really hate.
Sam Heywood
Arachne at FreeLists
-- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --
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