On 26 June 2011 01:15, Sean White <[email protected]> wrote: > I dont thinks thats normal somehow, i have been using Adobe Reader for > years > and have NEVER had it come past 200MB. >
ISTR a whole load of adverising crap in one large Acrobat download. Back to discussion, what's with all the PDF hate. Not hate, irritation by misuse. Hundreds of files to download that could simply be in HTML pages (as Alexandro indicated). We get stuff originated in whatever app and distributed in pdf format when it will never ever get printed. In fact mostly you can produce a pdf from a web page if you really need to anyway. I have 100 page application forms from the EU in Acrobat that need huge hardware resources just to be usable. This stuff should be in client server databases operated through web browsers not desktop pdf files. I accept all this as transition noise as we move to mobile technologies and the web. pdf was not originally designed for these purposes, it was designed for systems putting the information on to paper and has been extended and bloated accordingly. Arguably, rather like Office applications ;-). It serves a very good > purpose a standard, editable document that shows up exactly how you want it > WHEREVER you are and whatever OS you are using. Not disputing that. If you want distribute a document accurately for printing on paper, use pdf. > this has always been its > use and so it falls in a different document category to ODF. ODF is an > office format created to compete with MSO's doc, xls an ppt formats. to > essentially modify the underlying purpose to make it behave more like a PDF > would waste most of what we have put into it. > I agree, so let's look at the future and that is the web and mobile tecnologies. How do we get LibO to the web? That would be a far better priority for the use of resources. -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications (The Schools ITQ) www.theINGOTs.org +44 (0)1827 305940 The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
