Comments on: Adobe to send PDF to standards group

The Portable Document Format, already a de facto standard, will be headed to the ISO for formal standardization.

[ewelch]

Metroliner derails

Read: Adobe in one fell swoop just buried Microsoft's Metro.

[527nrhpd]

Buried? How do you figure?

If I could get around it, I would never use Adobe's crappy software. Acrobat is the true definition of bloatware. I've never used anything that awful in my life, and I've been on computers since the Apple IIe. My current laptop screams through everything else (C2D-T7200 / 1GB DDR2-667 RAM), but when I start up Adobe just to read a .pdf file, it turns into something like my 1983 Apple. Then, even when I'm done reading the file, the stupid program will not take the hint and close....nope, I have to go into the Task Manager and make it go away. Note, this is ONLY with Adobe Acrobat. I could do without websites using flash too, but that's another thing entirely...as for .pdf files, I'd gladly use anything included in MS Office over Acrobat. No matter what MS does, it can't be that bad.

[Technoracle]

More on the subject on these blogs

http://technoracle.blogspot.com/2007/01/pdf-specification-released-to-aiimiso.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/shebanation/2007/01/a_new_door_opens_for_pdf.html
http://blog.mcnaton.com/post/2007/01/29/adobe-turns-pdf-over-to-standards-body/

[Alonsx]

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