2 Jun
2005
2 Jun
'05
12:52 p.m.
The people who don't like PDFs either have not
used Acrobat
extensively or don't understand the real nature of the prouduct.
We're talking about PDFs, not Acrobat and not PDF+Acrobat. Or at least
*I* am.
No, I have not used Acrobat extensively, and that little only long ago
at a past workplace - and it was an unpleasant experience. I never
will as it is closed source - nothing I don't have source to goes on my
machines.
Acrobat allows [...]
Those are reasons to use Acrobat, maybe. They are not reasons to use
PDFs, unless you think of PDF as an Acrobat-only format. You can't
have it both ways.
It's one of the best and most wonderful tools that
the PC world has
ever created. Sorry if it's proprietary, but sometimes quality tools
are only created by people who want to be paid for their work.
And your point is...?
You appear to be saying "PDF is fine because there is good proprietary
software to work with PDF files". Some of us are not willing to go
with proprietary formats. PDF tries to be open, but it's not very; as
you point out, the only good software for working with it is
proprietary - and even they can't seem to get it right; I've lost count
of the number of PDFs I've picked up that ghostscript calls out for
violating Adobe's specs - and when it prints the creator, it turns out
to have been an Adobe program.
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