Comments on: What Idiot Decided This?

By: rammer

rammer — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 15:23:53 +0000

i also hate that those things jam up my browser and cause my system to seize. i have found some relief by deleting the .tmp files in :\documents and settings\yourusername\local settings\temp

see
http://www.duxcw.com/yabbse/in.....40;start=0

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 00:56:16 +0000

PDFs are great because, not only does it preserve the layout on your screen,
but if you want to print the document it will print with the original layout as well.
I’ll take pdfs over Word files ANY day. Just make sure you set your options in
Acrobat to disable the crap you don’t want… or check out some of the alternate
pdf viewers out there.

By: Jay Reding

Jay Reding — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:17:01 +0000

Also, as much as I hate Adobe Reader, Reader 7.0 is a *huge* improvement over 6.0. 6 was always a slow nightmare, but 7.0 finally gets it right.

And PDF is technically an open standard – based off of PostScript.

By: ikw3804

ikw3804 — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 21:05:46 +0000

ev,
TRY DOWNLOADING THE FILE TO YOUR DESKTOP FIRST THIS WILL INCREASE THE CHANCES OF FASTEROPENINGS. aLSO SWITCH YOUR BROWSER TO “FIREFOX”. iT IS SOOOOO FAST AND YOU WILL LIKE IT QUICK.
http://www.firefox.com
later,
k

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:11:35 +0000

As much as I tend to agree that PDF is drastically overused online, it _does_ have uses for which it is demonstrably superior to html…most notably for any document whose primary utility can be presumed to involve printing. (PDF is the perfect format for tax forms, for example…at least it will be for as long as only pre-certified preparation agencies can submit them electronically.) For the distribution of printable material online PDF has no superior.

That being said, there _does_ seem to be a lot of confusion about what PDF is for.

By: mog

mog — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 05:52:24 +0000

I like the fact I can download really big multipage reports like the 234 page MemoGate Report. And Preview does a decent job for what I want, easy to get to the page I want. And if the text is too small, I can enlarge it easily.

I don’t even have Adobe Acrobat on m Macs, don’t need it.

By: girl

girl — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 04:50:03 +0000

Actually, if you hold the control key down while clicking to open a pdf file (either a link or an actual file) it doesn’t do all of the updating and checking, and opens MUCH FASTER. Just a thought…

By: Resonant Information

Resonant Information — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 02:05:35 +0000

PDF as a standard
Adobe’s PDF has become the ubiquitous standard for storing and distributing official documents. Although I am no great fan of Adobe for mostly unrelated reasons, there are a number of good reasons for this: it is highly portable (indeed, PDF is short

By: Harry

Harry — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 23:00:36 +0000

PDFs may be overused, but when you’re needing to put a form (legal document) online, PDF is AFAIK the only way to do it and make sure you preserve the language.

By: Mark A.

Mark A. — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:05:31 +0000

I LOVE .pdf’s!!! Apple’s Preview reads pdf’s much faster than Acrobat, but I like Acrobat, too. pdf’s are about the only way to control how a form will apear and print on another’s computer. There is no substitute in my opinion.