Clarence Verge wrote:
>>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<<
Clarence,
After I read this I went back to the header as I was sure that you would have
copied this to Adobe <G>. Unfortunately, you only sent it to the list, and
all we can do is commiserate with you.
Roger Turk
Tucson, Arizona USA
