Re: Bug in acroread?
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Mike McCarty wrote:
> Joe Hart wrote:
>
> [snip]
>> <context>
>> Noone is forcing you to use pdf files
>> </context>
>> I disagree about it being forced on us. Many documents on the web are
>> PDF format. Most hardware comes without manuals and the documents are
>> pdf files.
>
> You have an odd definition for the word "force".
>
If I want to read the manual I have to have a way to view pdf files,
thus that is force by my definition. Perhaps not in the true since of
the word since to don't _have_ to read manuals, it's just that I am one
of the type of people who do. I RTFM and STFW so I don't ask stupid
questions. I wish more people did.
<snip>
>> 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.
>
> PostXcript and PDF are orthogonal to each other. They address different
> challenges. TeX and PDF are more competitive in the kinds of things
> they do. PostScript is a page formatting system, suitable for printer
> control, not a document format.
Agreed, but the debian documentation is available .ps and I can print to
a .ps file, so I consider it a document format. PDF is also page
formatting system, although AFAIK, both formats are capable of using code.
Joe
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