30 Jan
2005
30 Jan
'05
5:13 a.m.
From: "Scott Stevens" <chenmel(a)earthlink.net>
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I paid good money (> $300) for a licensed copy of
the full Acrobat for
Windows a number of years back, specifically to be able to archive
vintage manuals, magazines, and docs to the PDF format. Which I
presumed at the time to be open, and to stay open. At least my
expensive licensed copy of Acrobat is of an early enough version that
it'll presumably always produce PDF files that are readable on the new
readers.
It's probably time to freeze the PDF format and refuse to let in DRM
hooks and whizz-woo features. Isn't the file format documented enough
that the format is 'freed' of Adobe's menace?
I don't agree, Adobe needs to make some improvements. One I really want is
compressed files. Other formats have great compression ratios when compared
to PDF's. I post PDF's because that is the defacto standard but I want
something that lets me post more on my site without costing me more.
Randy
www.s100-manuals.com