Re: Tech Magazines going electronic.

["Followup-To:" header set to sci.electronics.design.]
On 2005-09-24, John Perry <jp@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Robert wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> I don't like the tricks you can do in HTML with external references. And
>> perhaps other things.
>>
>> I don't want that "flexibility" in a document I view. And I don't want to
>> keep dropping down to the source to find out what clever dicks are doing.
>>
>
> But, Robert, Acrobat reader has had hyperlinks for several versions,
> now. And with the hot new 7.0, it'll even call home without asking your
> permission, or even telling you it's doing it!. At least with a modern
> browser (not, of course, M$ style), you can prohibit html doing that.
>
> John Perry

I would agree that Acrobat reader gets worse with every new version.

I both create and view PDF files with no Adobe software. I use ghostscript
to create them and xpdf to view them. I only use PDF for schematics. You
can't beat it for that. For instance http://dlharmon.com/dspcard/dspcard.pdf
is 4 pages of detailed schematics and is only 106KB.

There seems to be a version of xpdf for M$ Windows:
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/xpdf.htm

Darrell Harmon
http://dlharmon.com
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