You've said that several times. Adobe Reader, PDF, it's all the same to the
average end user. Do you think that the average end user hunts down the
'other' PDF readers out there to view a PDF? I don't.

- Calvin

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Gaughan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 1:22 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Bloomberg article

Adam Haskell wrote:

> Embedded pdfs still take a long time to load...flashpaper is supported
> on over 98% of the computers on the internet, Acrobat is not near
> that.

Where'd you get that statistic from?

> Flashpaper is more widely supported. The executable footprint is
> unbeleively different 500k vs 10+ MB the SWF vs PDF sizes are simular
> though PDF wins out most of the time.

Indeed, but as I said, Acrobat Reader isn't the only PDF reader out
there, and most are a *lot* smaller than it. That's a point against
Adobe Reader, not PDF.

K.



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