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PDFs are very nice on Gnome too. The default reader is super-fast and PDFs really feel like nicely formatted text files. PDF simply rocks. Why, oh why, don't t
by tx 18y ago
PDFs are very nice on Gnome too. The default reader is super-fast and PDFs really feel like nicely formatted text files. PDF simply rocks.
Why, oh why, don't they convert everything into PDFs or (better) HTML?!
Scribd is solving a real problem which exists but their approach is the most perverted way imaginable... View your docs... through a FLASH PLUGIN! Even converting them into high-res JPEGs would have been alot better.
- SwellJoe 18y agoI disagree. The Gnome document viewer also opens another window--I hate popups, as they're disorienting. So, it's faster than Acrobat by a large margin...but it pops up, and is still generally slower than Scribd. I simply don't find PDF to be a an acceptable substitute for HTML when it comes to reading. So, I agree that converting to HTML would be better...it's technically a much larger challenge (click on the View as HTML link at Google for a Word or PDF document...and you'll see how well--or, not so well, in this case--a huge mega-corp with tons of cash, tons of smart engineers, and the obvious desire to do something useful in that direction, solves the problem). I may not like Flash, but at least it works in the browser.