At 07:18 AM 10/5/2007 -0700, Paul McNett wrote: ... >Paste screenshot into OpenOffice, then do your annotation, and export to >pdf. Hell, you can even send as pdf using your email client right from >the OpenOffice menu. You are out zero dollars, and once you have it set >up the whole process will take under a minute. > >Last I checked, Microsoft Office *still* doesn't have a PDF export >option, and PDF is the killer part of this: everyone in the world is set >up to view PDFs.
... And that brings up an interesting point. PDF is proprietary. Adobe can change it at any time. And, correspondingly, they could change their 'licensing' concept at any time. While PDFs do give good "print-look" results, it's just another proprietary format like Word. I'll bet at some time in the future, Adobe will drop the bomb and start charging fees to any other creator/reader software. This is why the PDF export isn't in MS stuff - Adobe couldn't get MS to pay the fees they wanted. Hmm.... but there are open source tools that read/write PDF. And that source is open. So that means the version of PDF they create/read can't really be taken away from us. Looks like, in regards to PDF, the open source community may have saved us. Again (regardless of the ignorance of the masses of "computer experts"). Of course that doesn't stop Adobe from coming up with a new version and slapping restrictions on that which won't allow the open source community to work with it. Oh well. Personally, I hate PDFs. But not much else is out there yet that is reliable. -Charlie _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
