Re: Bug in acroread?
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Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 12:51:09 +0100, Joe Hart wrote:
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> [...]
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>> Can you point me to a link where I can get the source for PDF? The DRM
>> information and all? IMO, Arcoread is just a marketing tool for Adobe
>> so that people will buy Acrobat. Very similar to Wordpad (until
>> recently) being able to read .doc files but not create them. Wordpad
>> free, Word not.
>
> http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference.html
>
> The specifications are in PDF format, of course...
>
>> Is postscript so bad that everyone needs pdf? No. The fact that PDF
>> files are hard to edit is what makes them so popular in the business world.
>
> I think it was mostly the PDF compression which made it more attractive
> than postscript as a format to exchange documents via the internet.
>
Thanks for the link. Loading it now. It takes a while because their
server is a little slow from here and it's a 31MB file.
Reading that will keep me busy for a while.
Joe
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