30 Oct
2007
30 Oct
'07
9:10 a.m.
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