Gregory J. Feig wrote:
>
> On Wed, 05 Jan 2000 00:12:02 +0100, Hans-Juergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > Hi Glenn,
>
> > you wrote on 03.01.00 to "acrodos link update...":
> > GM> If you look long enough, you _can_ find it.<g>
> > GM>
> > GM> http://cosmic.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/webdoc/viewer/acroread/acrodos/
>
> > "Goin' back to my hometown..." (Rory Gallagher) ;-)
>
> > BUT: Do you know if these DOS versions of the Adobe Acrobat Reader can
> > read all the newest PDF files? I doubt it, because I experienced an
> > incompatibility (what a word!) trying to read a new *.pdf (I think it
> > was a manual for McAfee's virus scanner) with v2.0 of the Acrobat Reader
> > for 16-bit Windows.
>
> Hans-J�rgen......what kind of "incompatibility" was it....non-fatal,
> or crashing-fatal......all I want to do with it is read some spec.
> sheets, and if some or it isn't readeable, well tough....if it crashes
> my box then i'll trash it....
Hi Gregy, Hans;
There is only ONE version of acrobat for DOS and, although it is worth trying,
and works VERY well for early .pfds, these a***oles at Adobe keep changing the
standard and care nothing for the users of even the previous Windows versions
of Acrobat - and as far as they are concerned, DOS users don't exist.
So, while it won't crash your hardware, I find it useless for viewing technical
docs made available by most electronic and semiconductor manufacturers - unless
the file was created before 1997. What you get is a message saying a (number)
of unrecognized elements (or whatever) were found and it quits processing.
I wish I could think of some way to get back at these companies that deliberately
generate or modify ?standards? to force users to load their latest pile of crap.
If there were a few more people in the world with strong opinions willing
to say "Enough is enough - I'm not going to support the use of this crap !" ,
we might have a chance.
I have resigned myself to waiting - it may take a long time and there may be
(I hope) some major direction changes due to a long overdue backlash - but I
trust that the results of this evolution will eventually be worthwhile.
- Clarence Verge
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