[ale] Rant[ish]: government and states requiring proprietary software

[Jim Kinney]

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.
OS bigot that I am....
On Sep 18, 2012 4:44 PM, "mike at trausch.us" <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

> On 09/18/2012 09:45 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > Ah. So get the stupid Adobe reader. Problem Solved.
>
> Yeah, sure.  Which breaks a whole schload of stuff, and is still at
> version 9, and is horribly written enough to bring my hexacore system
> with 8 GB of RAM to its knees.  No, thanks.  It's less resource
> intensive to boot Windows, sadly.
>
> > Scribus, a FOSS tool
> > has a wiki article about how to include Javascript in PDF forms. Or go
> > yelp at evince for not getting javascript included yet.
>
> Why would I yelp at the Evince developers to include a "feature" that I
> don't want in the first place?
>
> PDF is supposed to be electronic paper -- and anyone who breaks that
> expectation is a horrible, horrible person.
>
> JavaScript in PDF docs should be implemented in the same way as for HTML
> documents: with the possibility to use the document without it.  Or,
> again, if they want JS, it should be on a Web site, which is where the
> bloody PDF probably came from in the first place!
>
>         --- Mike
>
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