On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 07:00:33 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Richard Menedetter wrote:
>> PDF is not a funny format ! >> Portable Document Format is not bad ... > I beg to differ. > PDF is bloated and resource-hungry. > Unsuitable for pre-486 computers. > Unsuitable for low RAM computers. > Unsuitable for DOS users. > It really annoys me how people insist on sending > plain text as PDFs. These take several minutes > to download and several seconds of CPU thrashing > to display. Just for a few lines of text. > Stupid, stupid, stupid. > Cheers, > Steven PDF is not designed to send a few lines of text, neither is Word. PDF is designed to send reproduceable graphics for large diagrams, images and the like... for this kind of files PDF is OK. To get you a pizza... take a bicycle To haul 20 tons of potatoes... take a truck Greetings, Bastiaan -- Arachne V1.61, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
