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On Tuesday 09 October 2007 18:38, Benjamin A'Lee wrote: > On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 02:27:30PM +0100, James Fidell wrote: > > Tom Potts wrote: > > > http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/08/adobe-confesses- > > >pdf-backdoor > > > > A reason not to use Adobe Acrobat, surely? > > I was going to point that out - although the subject (and article > headline) says PDF, it's actually a problem in one specific application > and not the format. Anyone not using Windows doesn't have a problem > there (and if you're using Windows then you have more problems than > just a security hole in Acrobat Reader). > > PDF is a perfectly okay format, if you have a decent reader (xpdf) > and not a bloated piece of rubbish (acrobat). I agree - for Paper Documents - its lousy on a screen*. However if, as someone else said, you want your paragraph in a certain font then you have to embed all the fonts in your document - that ends up with a severely bloated document. And if you want me to read a paper formatted document send it to me in paper form. Why should I have to pay to kill a tree to read your document. You're not microsoft you know! * why should I buy a huge screen so I can make sense of your documents? Your not going to be able to read many PDF documents easily on the Eee but the same information in an HTML document will be legible to many. Tom te tom te tom > > Ben -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html