Re: Editors
From: Herbert Kleebauer (klee_at_unibwm.de)
Date: 02/29/04
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Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 10:49:10 +0100
eth wrote:
> to wait for you to get the message on the
> constant "PDF files are crap!!!" comments that people make all the
> time
> that many, many people suffer: "Oh, crap! It's a PDF
> file! Ah, forget it!! I'd rather stay ignorant!! I'd rather stick pins
> in my eyes repeatedly than fight with that Acrobat reader ever
> again!!"...
> Straight down the line, the _MAIN COMPLAINT_ here is the bloody PDF
> files!!
> But, enough is enough...the _INJUSTICE_ you do to HLA by using those
> bloody PDF files is offensive...
> I'm quite serious that half the problems of acceptance you're getting with
> HLA is in no small part thanks to those PDF files...except for Adobe,
> you might be about the only person in existence who actually _likes_
> them
> There are some who are "indifferent" to PDF files, of course...but
> there's an awful lot who _DESPISE_ them with a passion...HTML is not
> just "neutral" with regards to being viewable on practically all
> platforms (including mobile phones, for Pete's sake ;)...it's also
> "neutral" with regard to people's opinions on the format...it's "text
> files with tags" so who's going to worry about that?
Seems you had a very bad day. PDF surely is one of the best file
formats we got in the last two decades. I still prefer pure
text files if possible (if I use a new Win32 function, the first
I do is to convert the HTML file from msdn to text format, replacing
any symbolic name by it's value, which eliminates the need for any
header file, and add it to my private Win32 documentation). But
if pure text format isn't sufficient, then there is nothing better
than PDF format. HTML is nothing but fast food for multimedia
junkies and inappropriate for presenting information. I even set
up a small "WWW server" where HTML is replaced by PDF and HTTP by
FTP. This way the pages are identical displayed on any computer,
independent of the OS or browser. I even wrote my own Low Level
PDF generation tool many years ago. There are many reasons to
complain about HLA or the information in AoA, but surely no reason
to complain about the PDF format (at least up to version 1.2, I don't
like the newer ones with extensions like javascript or encryption).
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