On Jun 1, 2007, at 10:09 AM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
Are you new to computers? And it will get worse now that Microsoft has
started a campaign to "netscape" Adobe Acrobat. Expect to see tons of
paid-for reports about the badness of Adobe Acrobat and the
wonderfulness
of Silverlight.
I am not new to computers or to computing. As to the readability of
certain PDF files, let me give an example.
Newer PDF files available at the Fairfax County government website
are not readable with any of the various PDF viewers I have on my Mac
under 10.3.9, except for any embedded bit mapped graphic files
contained therein. The text portions are garbled. Older PDF files on
the site are fully readable with these various, non-Adobe PDF viewers.
It therefore appears as though the county, at some point in the
recent past, began using a different piece of software to create their
PDF files, or they upgraded their older software. At any rate,
whatever path they took, they have rendered their PDFs unreadable to me
at this time. I somehow think that the county is using Acrobat to
create these files, and that something about a newer version of
Acrobat, or the manner in which the county has decided to configure
Acrobat is creating a situation that requires the Adobe reader to be
required to properly open and view these newer files.
Steve
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