5 Apr
1999
5 Apr
'99
4:17 a.m.
On 5 Apr 1999, Eric Smith wrote:
Still, the point is they're both slow and annoying and I hate them both.
Ok, I do like the very beautiful formatted pages that can be had with PDF,
but its just too slow and bloated to be useful to me at this juncture in
my computer technology arsenal. I would probably like PDF more as the
preferred format for old computer documentation if I had like a dual
Pentium II 450 system with scads of hard drive storage, a superfast
graphics accelerator, coupled with my super-fast cable modem connection to
the internet. But the fact is I don't, and not many other people do
either.
I am using a Mac 7200/90 (90 mhz PPC 601) with the graphics built into the
motherboard, and I have been reading a lot of .pdf files lately (manuals
etc.). Its not flipping pages in a book, but I don't see it as that slow.
Typical is what I would call the speed.
An accurate manual is SUCH a nice thing to have, a little slow I can live with.
Are you
insane? The excrutiatingly slow and bloated Microsoft Word
screams compared to Acrobat.
Not when the Word file contains 300 DPI scanned images.