On 08/20/2012 01:08 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Mike Copeland <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Wow...play the MSoft way or don't play.
>>
>> Bummer.
> No. no. no. It's far worse that that :)
>
> Play the MS way, and one day they'll ship a service pack, a security
> patch or an "upgrade" and some of the functionality you've depended on
> is gone.
>
> Years ago, an Office "upgrade" blew away the VFP ODBC drivers which
> used to be included in the "Desktop Drivers" shipped with the product.
> Existing clients around the country suddenly couldn't get their Office
> automation, which included a data feed via ODBC to work. And that was
> our fault, of course.
>
> In another case, MS decided to disable scripting of some Outlook COM
> functions, as they realized bad guys were using it to send spam.
> Legitimate MS developers were using it, too, and we were blown out of
> the water.
>
> So, even trying to play nice with MS is a losing game.
>
I know a commercial company that provides fillable PDF files duplicated 
in Word format at a cost.  Less than Word 2003 or Word 2003 or less, I'm 
not sure.  But in order to use them in their application they need to 
make sure their customers have the older version of word.  They supply 
hundreds of PDFs in Word!  Or supplied.

Thanks to Ted and my friends at Profox I can fill the PDF directly! Look 
ma!  No Word!   ;^)


Jeff

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