I hate pdf files

[her209]

In Soviet Russia, PDF hates you.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: Encryptic

Originally posted by: Mith
Why can't they just make them .doc files? Much simpler in my opinion and I wouldn't have to download Acrobat. Ah well.

Because having a .doc file requires that you have Microshaft Word. With PDF, all you need is to download Acrobat, which can be had for free unlike Word.

Acrobat ain't free d00d. It's actually quite expensive. Acrobat READER is free though 🙂

 

[NeoMadHatter]

i just downloaded reader 6. is it faster than acrobat 5? i use acrobat 5 for reading and creating. but if i install reader 6, can i just use reader 6 to read all the stuff and create with acrobat 5. i don't want to pay for acrobat 6 as 5 does everything i need it to do.

 

[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: isekii
what's wrong with pdf ?

i like it

 

[mikebb]

Originally posted by: Shantanu
Adobe Acrobat is a total POS. Maybe the editing software is nice, but the viewer is total crapware. It's slow, cumbersome, and you can never get the text to fit right.

MS Word Viewer is similarly crappy.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

PDFs are virtual gods when it comes to datasheets. Rarely do they come in another format. .pdf is an open format, there are free tools to convert stuff to .pdf. And the .pdf format doesn't signifigantly change.

Wordpad can open Word 6.0 files.
That's it. It can sorta open later versions, but stuff isn't displayed correctly.

When you start adding images, .doc file sizes start large and work thier way to f'ing huge. By comparison .pdf files stay fairly small. And as stated, they are displayed correctly, every time.

I don't see what the fixation on having macros embedded in a document is. IT'S A FREAKING DOCUMENT, NOT AN INTERACTIVE PROGRAM!

 

[jjones]

I like pdf files.

 

[GreenGhost]

I refuse to open Word files that come out of the internet. I think PDF's have many advantages. At least they are better than .ps with Ghostview 🙂

 

[brtspears2]

I like it, though printing a larger PDF out really does a number to the poor HP 5si I have here.

 

[Xenon14]

No matter how fast processors get, how much DDR ram I stuff my computer with, if my harddrive has that extra 8mb cache, if i can overclock my Ati 108,000 to 200 ghz core/memory clock, how efficient we get with hyperthreading, SSE2, 64 bit operations, while at the same time harnassing the power of distributed computing... PDF files will still lag every time I scroll.

 

[Spencer278]

Originally posted by: NoReMoRsE
Seriously, pdfs are good. The documents appear exactly how the creator wanted them to look, the Acrobat Reader is free, and you get to use a hand icon that grabs the page. What more do you want?

The document appearing how the creator wants is the biggest problem with .pdf becuase not everyone is going to use the same display as the creator so it will be different. I would like documents formatted to fit my screen if that isn't to much to ask for.