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I Still never understood why Adobe thinks reader has to do so much. It just has to show a paper. If they would have stuck with that all would have been fine. Bu
by CoryMathews 17y ago
I Still never understood why Adobe thinks reader has to do so much. It just has to show a paper. If they would have stuck with that all would have been fine. But they will always be Adobe..
- windsurfer 17y agoCorporate stuff! They want Reader to be ubiquitous so that the competition can't get in. Reader doesn't just have to show a paper in an office. It could have a form. It could have a CAD drawing. It could do all sorts of magic that a business can come to rely on. Imagine how much simpler it is to send a PDF to a client to sign and "submit" as opposed to managing faxes.
- CoryMathews 17y agoThen they should put out a reader lite. which would only allow basic functions. Since most of the non corporate world use nothing but these.
- windsurfer 17y agoThat would be admitting there is something wrong with their program, and it would increase the risk of people not being able to read the format. You would end up with two different PDF 'standards' and it wouldn't help anything.
- tptacek 17y agoPDF is an extremely complex standard. Libraries like Prawn are deceptive; generating one class of full-featured PDF documents is an easier task than reading all possible classes of PDF documents. It's also an ISO standard, so there aren't a lot of degrees of architectural freedom in simplifying and hardening it. Remember that much of PDF predates "modern" vulnerability research.