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Captain's log. We received a signal from Stephen Harris on StarDate
24/10/05 22:14. Translated to English it stated:
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy Schestowitz" <r@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Roy" <roy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 9:20 PM
> Subject: Re: generating pdf files
>
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>> Well, the point about support by the software package is an important
>> one. More recent versions of Acrobat Reader are probably more
>> self-contained. I also noticed that when generating PDF's, some embed
>> the font and some don't. This affects the size significantly, but it
>> also depends on the size of the document. It is neat when you generate
>> 20k PDF's, but when writing a book, for instance, that factor is
>> >negligible.
>>
>>
>> I agree. I installed Acrobat reader 7 (5 has a vulnerability in Linux by
>> the way), but I still tend to use KGhostView, which opens PDF's
>> almost instantly. I also like the PDF previews in KDE.
>>
>
> Yes, I read that before Reader 6 there was a problem with fonts
> maybe for Windows too. Disabling the plug-ins will load faster.
> I worked on a computer the other day that still had Reader 3.0!
> I dual boot with Fedora Core 4 which loads much faster than
> Win XP. FC4 was so much easier to install than Redhat 6.0 -- I remember
> testing channels on my SB16 soundcard installation.
I am not too find of PDF's for that reason. I usually make alternative
formats available, but nothing beats the looks of a PDF version.
> This quote agrees with your remark (anti-aliasing?CoolType) above:
> "The current release of Adobe Reader 7 for Linux is very much
> welcome. The ancient Acrobat Reader 5.x for linux with its ugly
> lack of font smoothing in the user interface and its dated Motif-like
> file requester dialogues was _screaming_ for an update."
>
> http://www.planetpdf.com/creative/article.asp?contentid=6503&ra 2000
>
> "One cannot escape the notion that Acrobat's display mechanisms have
> been sorely neglected during the first four major releases of the
> software."
Boy, I hated them for neglecting Linux and making that ugly Motif UI for
version 5.
Roy
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