[Sigia-l] PDF: 99% bad

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"Jon Hanna" wrote:

> I can see a point in criticising Nielsen for repeating common gripes about
> so-called PDFs (and he leaves out criticisms that only apply to facsimile
> PDFs) as if this was somehow new.

Let me put it this way: do you know of any other format that allows you
attach practically any other static/dynamic file, index and search, drag
zoom, hyperlinking, mix&match doc size, multi-level security, signatures,
bookmarks, thumbnails, annotations, highlighting, data export, forms,
JavaScript, embedability into other apps, on-the-fly structured doc
creation, hi-res printing, font, embedding, variable compression, color
separation, ubiquity across computing platforms, free reader, etc and a
decade of reliability? I didn't think so.

Do we declare cheese unfit for human consumption because there's Kraft? Do
we stop drinking beer because there's Schaffer? Do we stop going to the
movies because there's...well, I hope you get my drift.

Can PDF be improved? Can Jakob Nielsen?

I, for one, can easily do the latter, if offered enough money. :-)

Ziya
Nullius in Verba