Posted by David Segall on 09/22/06 09:01

Jim Higson <jh@333.org> wrote:
>
>I always find "you must get Adobe Acrobat" text very annoying.
>
>There is PDF reading software other than Acrobat. It is like saying "you
>must use internet explorer" in order to browse the web.
I don't think they are comparable. The standard for web pages is
published by a consortium not associated with any one browser. The PDF
standard was developed and published by Adobe. It is likely that the
Acrobat reader will cope best with the latest PDF version and, in any
case, Adobe deserve the credit of a link even if you choose a
different reader. If it was not for PDF the web would be full
Microsoft Word documents and there is no published standard for them.
>
>PDF links? I just middle-click them and read the PDF in a browser tab. Very
>easy.
Since you did not specify an alternative I assume that means you do
use Acrobat.

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