Re: Adobe and pdf files

2000-09-21 Thread Gizmoleon
Isnt Microsoft word a product of Microsoft office, which is not in turn free. I know that HTML is a similar language, yet there are a great deal of programs to read and translate this info. It is the competition aspect of HTML (Netscape, Microsoft explorer, etc.) that has bred the further de

Re: Adobe and pdf files

2000-09-21 Thread Alexander Guerrero
Alexander Guerrero wrote: > Anyoneo who uses acrobat reader to read PDF documents, in the near future will > enjoy the need to reverse the proces, that is to convert PDF to word and other > way around. On leads to the other and you for Acrobat Destiller y Exchange and > get the reader "free".

Re: Adobe and pdf files

2000-09-21 Thread Jay Bhattacharya
It's not true that you have to buy Adobe Distiller to make .pdf files. There are all kinds of freeware programs (e.g. ps2pdf) available on the web that will turn any post-script file into .pdf format. So for example, you can use any post-script printer driver to print your Word document to a pos

Re: Adobe and pdf files

2000-09-21 Thread Alexander Guerrero
Anyoneo who uses acrobat reader to read PDF documents, in the near future will enjoy the need to reverse the proces, that is to convert PDF to word and other way around. On leads to the other. Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just read the series of correspondence considering the Xerox mac

Re: Adobe and pdf files

2000-09-21 Thread Pat McCann
Their other products are worthless if the pdf format is not standard. Who would produce a pdf document if all the users of it had to pay not only the producer, but some thrid party, to view it. There are many free alternatives. The reader has to be free to compete with MS word and html and nsf an

RE: Adobe and pdf files

2000-09-21 Thread Erik Burns
wait a second: you can only READ .pdf files if someone has MADE them first, and to MAKE them you need to buy the full fledged product. the logic is that by spreading the reader around for free you create demand. else it would be a completely closed circuit. note, Microsoft offers a Word reader for