On 2 Jan 2007, at 16:00, Malcolm Nixon wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 11:45:20 +0000, Andy Greener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Better get used to it - Adobe are merging it with PDF :-/ and
>> pushing it into the RIA ("Rich Internet Applications") space....
>
> I'm ambivalent to it (:-) -
>
> I can see it has some very good uses - like animated instructional
> presentations etc etc - but some people just use it because it is
> there and they don't bother that it is not accessible to everybody,
> and when done badly the flash files can be huge.
Agreed - accessibility, or rather lack of it, is a big issue (but
something Adobe will have to overcome if they want the technology to
succeed). It's going to find its way into a lot more interactive
web applications - forms and the like...
> PDF is much more useful, but then I only use Open Office to generate
> my PDF's - Acrobat is too expensive
PDF generation comes for free on OS X in any app as part of the
standard print dialog (OS X's printing architecture is PDF-based).
Ghostscript gives you something similar on Linux doesn't it?
For the Windows users out there Office 2007 will come with a PDF
output capability (as a freely downloadable MS add-on) ...
> Fortunately Adobe have readers for both on UNIX & Linux
> You may be able to tell that I'm a great supporter of Open Source
> software (:-)
Me too - much OSS is available for OS X as it's real UNIX... (and
itself partly open as Darwin).
> On the OT subject of Christmas cards that come as .exe files - I
> wouldn't open them.
Ditto :-)
--
Andy Greener
n.b. Whisper
Pangbourne, UK
http://www.nb-whisper.com
"The human brain starts working the moment you are born, and never
stops until you stand up to speak in public."
