From: Andrej Bauer <Andrej.Bauer@fmf.uni-lj.si>
To: Categories list <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: Warning about Adobe 8
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:10:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1ImrLM-0002B3-6a@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)
Michael Barr wrote:
> But my main point--that we cannot tie our future to commercial software
> that the proprietor can change at will--remains valid.
Please do not confuse software and standards. PDF is an open standard,
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format, which among
other things means that Adobe cannot "take it away" from the public.
They can take away their PDF viewer, but this is not an issue as there
are a number of other viewers available. I use kpdf (a KDE incarnation
of xpdf I believe), for example, and I am perfectly happy with it. As a
bonus, kpdf does not display annoying adds in the upper right corner,
which the free Adobe reader does.
Best regards,
Andrej
next reply other threads:[~2007-10-30 9:10 UTC|newest]
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2007-10-30 9:10 Andrej Bauer [this message]
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2007-10-30 7:58 Gaucher Philippe
2007-10-30 3:04 Peter Selinger
2007-10-29 12:35 Michael Barr
2007-10-29 12:20 Robert J. MacG. Dawson
2007-10-29 7:05 Michael Mislove
2007-10-29 0:26 Vaughan Pratt
2007-10-29 0:13 Robert L Knighten
2007-10-28 13:06 Michael Barr
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