On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 09:16:17PM -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote: > frantisek holop wrote: > > >Nick's hate against pdf clouds his reason apparently. > >pdf is a perfect format for technical documentation and > >papers. go and shout at people who publish their paper > >in .ps and .pdf . having said that i don't agree with > >publishing _only_ in .pdf . all the formats have their use. > > > > > I wouldn't presume to speak for Mr. Holland, of course. But I've raised > the pdf issue here a couple of times lately. I *don't* hate pdf. What I > object to is inapproriate use. Why the hell would you type out a text > document and then make it available as pdf only? No fancy formatting, no > graphics, no layout, just text. That's the kind of thing I've been > seeing in pdf. It's just stupid. > > The IRS making tax forms available as pdf is *perfect* usage. People > making papers published in print magazines available online in pdf is > great. Using pdf as a uber cool, k-rad mechanical typewriter is braindead. >
Amen. I use the links/lynx browsers a fair bit. The OpenBSD site is great for that. When I do my tax return, I jump on a box with X as I expect to visit a JavaScript, .pdf loaded site. I reckon docs should be in acsii or html as when you're in a tight spot working on a server rebuild, you probably wont have access to the new world.
