Re: PDF grief - was Re: Flash is open?
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 07:14:18AM -0400, John A. Sullivan III uttered:
> On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 06:52 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> <snip>
> > Look at PDF. PDF became a ISO/IEC standard but we (at linux) still lack
> > for a PDF editor that can compete with Acrobat Professional.
> <snip>
> That comment really strikes home. We are working on a potential major
> Windows desktop replacement project. The two things that are absolutely
> killing us are email and a viable substitute for Acrobat Standard. We
> can roughly mimic everything Acrobat does but only with create
> complexity, taking ten times longer to get it done, using several
> applications in the process, having less than comparable results, and
> making the process detestable to the end users who wonder why would
> anyone give up Windows for this. There are couple of admirable efforts
> out there but they have a very, very long way to go - John
There are competing products to Acrobat Standard; they're not free
though. But the problem is not that other's can't; it's just that most
people don't realize what a complex bit of software engineering
developing a PDF editor is; if it's to be useful at all.
Check out acrobatuser.com where vendor products for Acrobat other than
just Adobe are often reviewed/discussed/used.
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