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Re: Bug in acroread?



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Mike McCarty wrote:
>>> Amazing. OT threads covering abortion, religion, politics etc. ad
>>> nauseum persist for weeks with hardly a complaint, and this guy asks a
>>> question which is actually more or less on topic, and he gets chastized.

<snip>

>> I asked him to try open source software that can be debugged.  Barring
>> doing that, take his problem to the vendor.
>>
>> Perhaps my wording was a bit harsh.  Sometimes I do that.  I apologize
>> if I offended anyone.
> 
> I'm not offended. OTOH, if you find this one little post to be
> OT enough to warrant a comment, then why aren't you shouting down
> the other abusers here who rant on and on about abortion, politics,
> religion, etc.?

I never said it was off topic.  I agree that there has been too much off
topic discussion lately, although it is entertaining.  It seems to have
died down a bit over the weekend.

My position comes from the fact that companies try to push their
proprietary formats down our throats.  PDF is a perfect example of a
file type that I have disliked since I moved to Europe where the paper
format is different than the US.  With PDF files, one cannot change the
paper format.  I end up with empty space on the pages or images that are
distorted.  Some pdf files that I have downloaded are set for some
really strange paper (brochure perhaps) that of course I don't have.

There is no such problem with other files.  Unfortunately, PDF has
become a standard.  Luckily there are gpl tools that can handle them,
but I don't think you can thank adobe for that.

Joe
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