Early thoughts on FC3

[pctech at mybellybutton.com]

--- Joel Jaeggli <joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Preston Crawford wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 06:25, Chris Adams wrote:
> > > Once upon a time, Daniel Stonier
> <snorri_dj at operamail.com> said:
> > > > Just curious, why do so many users go and get
> acrobat reader?
> > > > I've always just used ghostview/kghostview for
> pdf files without a problem.
> > > 
> > > There is no other PDF plugin AFAIK.  Also,
> ghostview and xpdf don't
> > > support all PDF files (no form fill-in, some
> things don't render right,
> > > etc.), and acroread is usually much faster at
> rendering.
> > 
> > So you download the PDF and then open it. 
> 
> actually if you have mozilla plugger installed it
> can swallow xpdf in the 
> browser without trouble... now there are certain
> pdfs you can't open with 
> xpdf, but that's because acrobat is neither open nor
> a standard.

Adobe created the Acrobat format.  So the standard is
whatever Adobe decides it is.

> joelja
>  
> > Preston
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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