| From: | Adam J adamj@*********.html.com |
|---|---|
| Subject: | The Shadowrun Supplemental #10 |
| Date: | Tue, 06 Jul 1999 18:16:03 -0600 |
>> Hardly incompatible. Incompatible with some people, but compatible with
>the
>> vast majority of computers, for free.
>
>How nice and thoughtful of you to paste one posting into another one and
then
>reply to them all at once.
I'm not sure if this is sarcasm or not..
> I never said that Adobe wasn't compatible on lots
>of systems. I said, or at the very least I meant to state, that Adobe
wasn't
>compatible with lots of other software packages (Corel, Word, etc....).
It's not supposed to be. It's not an editable document format - it's a
distribution format. There's a very fine program dedicated to reading PDF
files, that covers everything that could possibly be used/embedded in one,
and there's really no need for other programs to be able to read it. They
couldn't possibly be as comprehensive as Acrobat Reader, and that raises
problems for people who provide files in PDF content - it is supposed to
provide Exact layout. When you have various programs interpreting it,
there's bound to be some bugs in them, or features not supported, and that
ruins the point of the format, and I'll be left saying the same thing I've
been saying since the magazines inception - if you want the good looking
version, use Acrobat reader. If you don't care about that, or want to edit
the contents, wait for the HTML version.
And with this post, I'm finished. If someone isn't going to read the
magazine, despite me releasing it in two very common formats, I couldn't
convince you to read it even if I printed off a hard copy and express
mailed it to your door.
Adam
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