[Sigia-l] PDF: 99% bad

[Bill Brown]

Not to mention the direction Adobe is taking Acrobat towards XML:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/07/15/HNadobepdf_1.html

Bill Brown
http://www.bbrown.info/blogs/bblog/

: -----Original Message-----
: From: Listera
: Sent: 7/15/03 9:40 AM
: Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] PDF: 99% bad
: 
: 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