Screw Drivers and PDF Files

That's true, I extended what you wrote to sharing documents in general, rather than demanding that the sharing take place over the Internet. That was sloppy of me, and thank you for calling me on it. I think we have good evidence in this very thread that PDFs *aren't* universal. (I don't doubt they are considered universal by some people; those people are wrong. I'd even go so far as to say that anyone who considers *any* format as universal is, strictly, wrong - there probably are a few people who can't do anything useful with even as widely supported a format as plain text.) Your use of the passive voice is clever. You are hiding a great deal with it, but I'm not going to let you get away with it. Specifically, By whom? I listed three alternative packagings; you have given no evidence to support your implicit claim that they are not accepted or that they are not considered universal - claims that are impossible to refute because you have not specified by whom they are putatively "accepted" or "considered". Presumably you will claim existence proofs by example, most likely with yourself as the example, in that you do not accept other packagings, and you do consider PDFs universal - but so what? You may be willing to use yourself as the touchstone of format approval, but I doubt very many other people will. /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B