[ale] PDF reader

[mike at trausch.us]

On 03/16/2012 05:08 PM, JD wrote:
> NEVER (ok, not really), but never use Adobe PDF tools unless you must to earn
> money and alternatives don't work for you. I've had to use Adobe Acrobat for
> many years professionally. I don't need them anymore.  Adobe management has
> finally started caring about security, but they still haven't convinced
> everyone.  It took them 5 years too long, IMHO.

The only things I use Adobe's reader for are documents that require
JavaScript that cannot be worked with in Evince.

For example, the GA form 500 cannot be used in Evince.  You print it and
it will print wrong; they rely on JavaScript to generate the barcode
that their system scans to read the information in computer-friendly
form.  Also, some of their fields are calculated based on other fields
that you have already filled out.

Nice concept.  They should stop it with the PDFs and just create a
bloody Web site with HTML forms and JavaScript there so that I can fill
my stupid taxes out THAT way.

For that matter, the IRS needs to do the same bloody thing.

Can you tell that I hate using the wrong tool for the wrong job?

	--- Mike

-- 
A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic
than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense.
                                   --- Carveth Read, “Logic”

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