From: Charles Hixson (charleshixsn@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Dec 19 2002 - 08:49:05 MST
Eugen Leitl wrote:
>On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
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>>Adobe Acrobat is not available as "free software" in the FSF sense,
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>Adobe Acrobat describes a number of data formats; some of them proprietary
>(encrypted). While Elcomsoft has been found not guilty in the very recent
>trial (we'll see how the Norwegian kid fares), Adobe is still very much
>unrepentant.
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>While tools like xpdf (and pdftotext) can read some of Adobe Acrobat
>formats, a much better solution would be to reject them on lack of
>openness and because of commercial interests embroiled therein.
>...
>
While agreeing completely with much of this, xpdf readable acrobat files
have many advantages. Still, I don't see that they have many advantage
over rdf files. (But they have LOTS of advantages over HTML!)
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