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 Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Adobe and PDF

This reminds me of when we used the QuickTime SDK in Mac IE 5 for our “media bar” feature and we had to remove it at the last minute because Apple got pissed off at us for playing video in IE and bypassing the QuickTime player. Sheesh.

If Adobe cared about PDF, Acrobat Reader wouldn’t be such a slow, uninteresting program.

Posted Thursday, June 15, 2006    Permalink    Comments [1]  View blog reactions

 

Thursday, June 15, 2006 3:51:45 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Now, if Microsoft really cared about Windows, Outlook and Word...

But I'm afraid Microsoft is going to "change the world" again by giving us their own version of a PDF alternative with reader software only for Windows, maybe also a Java alternative that's Windows-only, an ugly me-too Google, a would-be Photoshop contender "if we knew how to do it" and some "no, OASIS is no longer good enough for us" document format despite having been part of the group developing the standard. Well, if you can't have it your way, roll your own and call it "open". Who cares as long as people are de facto forced to use your software.
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