>The problem with pdf is what is PDF ? They keep changing the damn
>format and you have to download another bloated package every six
>months ! And you can't make them yourself if you were thoughtless
>enough to want to. :(
>File formats DO have trade-offs, and although ZBM may not do any
>more than let you see what the author WANTS you to see, PDF is a
>very poor trade. If HTML wasn't designed to move around the screen
>when you send it to someone with a different display size, it would
>- in combination with .gifs or .zbms - make a much better solution.
>I'm not pushing .ZBMs. I just hate .PDFs and would like to see ANY
>substitute. <G> <- hopefully the substitute won't be MS-Word .doc !?
>- Clarence Verge
>- Back to using Arachne V1.62 ....
I hate .PDFs too! At best, .PDFs on the WWW slow things down considerably.
When I had OS/2 Warp 4 running, I had Acrobat Reader 3 for OS/2, and viewing
.PDFs was slow, clumsy, and hard on the eyes. Acrobat Reader was too slow for
reading .PDFs online, considering my ISP's 15-minute inactivity disconnect, so
I would have to download and read offline. Now the best I can do is strip the
graphics and read the text. How disconcerting, when I look for information on
Chaintech motherboards on their Web site, http://www.chaintech.com.tw, when I
find the descriptions are in .PDFs! Now I have to go through the download and
installation of the latest DOS version of Ghostscript just because they chose
such a nuisance format for those files?
