John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since postscript, .pdf, and ebooks all make money for Adobe > (postscript and .pdf mostly in residuals), it's time to stop using > them. Sic semper tyrannis.
But PDF and PS do not necessarily make money for Adobe. My printer has a non-Adobe PS RIP, I create PDFs without Adobe software, view them, etc without a problem. Just because they created the spec does not mean it's eternally sullied. There are a sufficiently large body of software out right now which can operate on these formats that it is extremely useful even without further Adobe influence. And any further acts by Adobe will not take that software out of circulation. (There are companies much larger than Adobe using PS and PDF from non-Adobe products. Even were Adobe to conjure some legal ground to attack, they would be crushed.) In contrast to Java, which is a fast-moving target under constant change by Sun, PS and PDF are fairly stable formats. I could see boycotting PDF encryption (since that's core to the legal action) but to ditch PDF and PS would hurt us more than it would hurt Adobe... replacing our free software and fonts with a new spec, unsupported by anyone else, is just too much work for the minimal reward. (Do you really want to replace all your fonts with Speedo fonts? Considering the major alternative format is likewise controlled by companies of questionable morality, and has patent liabilities to boot.) -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Like punning, programming is a play on words.
