[CLUE-Talk] PDF: Unfit for Human Consumption

[Jeffery Cann]

On Tuesday 15 July 2003 12:48 pm, Jed S. Baer wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 22:38:42 -0600

> Uh, not quite. I'd guess if you're running Acrobat reader, then yes. 

Yes, I meant 'in Acrobat'.  It works in Acrobat because Adobe made sure it 
does.  Any other readers are unfortunately at the disadvantage of incomplete 
knowledge about Acrobat and how it renders.

This is why PDFs (displayed in Acrobat) are a stupid idea from a technical 
perspective but a great solution to the *business* goal of displaying a 
digital document in a 100% consistent fashion, regardless of the platform.

Jeff

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