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At 10:58 AM 3/26/2004, James Plante wrote:
There are technical and legal hurdles to implementing translators for MS Word files, too,
Not at all!
The Word file format is documented by MSFT, and you can acquire a copy of the documentation w/o any problem either directly from MSFT or included in the CVS trees for OpenOffice and AbiWord.
My hope is that Adobe will find a way to offer this capability to their Reader users at an economically affordable cost
The real question remains - where does the cost model go...Should the creator of the form pay the $$ or the user of the form?
If the former, how would Adobe see revenue on a form with wide (unlimited) distribution? If the latter, would you be willing to put your credit card number into Acrobat each time you found a form you wanted to fill out?
And that, in my understanding, is where the issue are. They are social, not technical ones...
--preferably <before> they get supplanted by an open source solution rather than in reaction to one.
As I said, it won't/can't happen...(not that it shouldn't, but that it can't) At least not as long as the developers of said project are willing to say on the good side of the legal system...
Face it: $40 a copy didn't work well with Approval, so sales are low.
Sales were low because it was never properly marketed....(we've had this discussion before - see online archives)
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