[ale] Still no flames... :-)

[Captain SaveRite]

This might be useful ....
See post on "How to make Acrobat Reader start very
quickly "
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/02/2324253&tid=189&tid=185&tid=156&tid=95&tid=8



--- "Christopher R. Curzio" <ale at accipiter.org> wrote:

> I don't see how you can say PDF sucks because it
> "requires bloatware to
> view." That's absurd. Acrobat Reader is a fairly
> lightweight application
> (especially the *nix version), and if that's too
> heavy there's always
> GPDF, which works great.
> 
> And of course, there's pretty much any and every
> application on OS X that
> can read and write PDF. 
> 
> -- 
> Christopher R. Curzio     |  Quantum materiae
> materietur marmota monax
> http://www.accipiter.org  |  si marmota monax
> materiam possit materiari?
> :wq!
> 
> 
> 
> Thus Spake Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com>:
> Tue, 23 Aug 2005 13:58:27 -0400
> 
> 
> > On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 13:44 -0400, Michael B.
> Trausch wrote:
> > 
> > > Yeah... Someday, though, people will figure out
> how to use document
> > > formats that are document formats.  :-D  Word is
> a proprietary thing,
> > > and before OpenOffice, what did people request
> when someone didn't
> > > have access to anyone else that had a Word
> license?  
> > 
> > that's easy:  RTF.  It is the non-proprietary
> subset supported
> > universally.  If you send an RTF doc all platforms
> (at least all the
> > ones I know about) will be able to open and render
> it.  Avoid using
> > strange fonts/formatting and you should be good.
> > 
> > PDF sucks (requires bloatware to view).  JPG is
> better than PDF. ;-)
> > 
> > -Jim P.




		
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