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Well ....

Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
Suddenly the "safe" small footprint way to transmit documents is no longer safe. Is anyone really surprised that PDF finally became a target for abuse? 



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Seems to be an easily solvable problem. The problem is solved simply by switching to an open source pdf viewer, as recommended in some of the replies to the above blog posts. Sam Heywood
... not exactly. You see, Sam, PDF is *not* just forms these days. It's not just forms with full colors and pictures. It's not even just forms you can fill out on your computer and then print ... now it's color, and fill out the forms and save them in filled out format, and I think I recently saw something about embedded Flash???
No longer just a way to send a text file with a few lines and a couple of different fonts, maybe some b&w artwork ... now it's a whoooooooooole bunch more than that. 

And those alternative readers don't do all those other things.

l.d.
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