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Your sarcasm doesn't acknowledge iPaper's potential. PDFs are actually somewhat annoying to open for many people. Scribd's platform independent solution is a
by aneesh 19y ago
Your sarcasm doesn't acknowledge iPaper's potential. PDFs are actually somewhat annoying to open for many people. Scribd's platform independent solution is actually pretty cool.
- anewaccountname 19y agoIt depends on Flash, it isn't any more platform independent than the acrobat reader is.
- aoeuid 19y agoAnd if you don't like Adobe, for Windows there's Foxit Reader, and for Linux there's Evince. I can't vouch for Foxit, but viewing PDFs through Evince is also far more efficient in terms of processor usage, especially since flash seems to like to take up all the cycles it can get.
- rms 19y agoFoxit is great, it feels much more like a Linux PDF reader than Adobe's reader. The editor is also good, it lets you edit PDFs at a relatively low level.
- pierrefar 19y agoIt's choosing the lesser of two Adobe evils. I'll take Flash over Acrobat Reader any second.
- DougBTX 19y agoIf there were only two evils, I might agree with you. But there are better options than either of the two you mention, for example Preview on a Mac or Sumatra PDF in Windows. Converting to Flash makes it harder to use a decent program to view PDFs, picking evil for everyone, not just those who use Adobe Reader.
- rlm 19y agoSo platform independent it doesn't work on devices such as iPhones. ;-) I say add an extra link or make it a cookie preference, so I can have different settings depending on where I am.