<p>Adobe reader runs ok on my feeble netbook with fedora something on it. Yes it's a dog and nowhere near FOSS status but it is better to run crap on Linux poorly that ever booting into windows.<br>
OS bigot that I am....</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 18, 2012 4:44 PM, "<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>" <<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 09/18/2012 09:45 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> Ah. So get the stupid Adobe reader. Problem Solved.<br>
<br>
Yeah, sure. Which breaks a whole schload of stuff, and is still at<br>
version 9, and is horribly written enough to bring my hexacore system<br>
with 8 GB of RAM to its knees. No, thanks. It's less resource<br>
intensive to boot Windows, sadly.<br>
<br>
> Scribus, a FOSS tool<br>
> has a wiki article about how to include Javascript in PDF forms. Or go<br>
> yelp at evince for not getting javascript included yet.<br>
<br>
Why would I yelp at the Evince developers to include a "feature" that I<br>
don't want in the first place?<br>
<br>
PDF is supposed to be electronic paper -- and anyone who breaks that<br>
expectation is a horrible, horrible person.<br>
<br>
JavaScript in PDF docs should be implemented in the same way as for HTML<br>
documents: with the possibility to use the document without it. Or,<br>
again, if they want JS, it should be on a Web site, which is where the<br>
bloody PDF probably came from in the first place!<br>
<br>
--- Mike<br>
<br>
--<br>
A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic<br>
than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense.<br>
--- Carveth Read, “Logic”<br>
<br>
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