[ale] PDF reader

[Jay Lozier]

On 03/16/2012 05:17 PM, mike at trausch.us wrote:
> 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?
You're asking idiots to think, won't happen. Anyhow, if they did use 
HTML/javascript they would probably require one to use IE only because 
they have not mastered the idea of writing standard compliant code.
>
> 	--- Mike
>
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Jay Lozier
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