Re: [TCLUG:14011] [rant] pdf on the web

[Chris McKinley <lamfada@lugh.net>]

I have to totally agree.  In addition to all of the pain that pdf files 
inherently have, Acrobat Reader 3 and 4 both fail to load up their library
APIs for me (form, highlight, www, ...) and I have so far not determined why.
Also, on Sun, it only works if Netscape is running on 8-bit color, possibly 
others.  

OTOH, xpdf does an excellent job, but doesn't understand the forms, so I still
can't fill out online forms that are in pdf. :/

-Chris

On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

> <RANT>
>         am I the only person who despises .pdf files on the web? it's not
> very portable (not everyone has a .pdf viewer); it sucks huge chunks of
> memory; it's slow; and it's usually harder to read than an HTML document,
> because you're forced into the inappropriate "piece of paper" paradigm that
> computers in general should be trying to get away from!
> 
>         in my case, the pisser is that Acrobat is misconfigured on my
> computer (don't ask me how to fix it either); such that Netscrape complains
> about an "out of memory error" when it tries to launch Acrobat itself.
> however, if I launch Acrobat by hand; then things work (aside from the
> slowness and difficulty of reading).
>         I guess i shouldn't expect much better from WinLose95. ;( ;(
> 
> so *please* people, *don't* put documents in .pdf form, if you ever want
> people to read them!
> 
> </RANT>
> 
> sorry. just had to let that out.
> 3ware (www.3ware.com) has some IDE RAID controllers I'm trying to check out;
> and they put the specs in .pdf form. ;(
> 
> Carl Soderstrom
> System Administrator    307 Brighton Ave. 
> Minnesota DHIA	        Buffalo, MN	
> carls@agritech.com      (612) 682-1091
> 
> 
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