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What I hate about software like PDF viewers is that they are akin to: Here I printed your manuscript, but in order to read it, you need to pay me for these spe
by samstave 5y ago
What I hate about software like PDF viewers is that they are akin to:
Here I printed your manuscript, but in order to read it, you need to pay me for these special glasses to see the ink.
Oh you want a change? Pay me for these special gloves so you may handle the pages and reorganize them as you like.
- wlesieutre 5y agoAgreed, on a Mac I feel like a PDF document is a stack of paper that I can rearrange, copy, rotate, and otherwise handle however I want to. On Windows it's more like a hardcover bound book that I can download and attach to an email to share with someone, but god forbid I want to change anything. They can make me use Windows in the office, but next time something dies in my home PC I'm just going to sell the rest of it for parts and replace it with a Steam Deck.
- dylan604 5y agoI sometimes wonder if Preview being so much easier than Acrobat isn't an intentional poke at Adobe for all the times Adobe strayed from the one true path of Apple. That whole skipping a version of software release because Adobe didn't pay attention to words from up on high to quite using deprecated language surely didn't sit well.
- samstave 5y ago
- dylan604 5y agoI've tried on multiple attempts now to decipher WTF this means. Essentially, Adobe === BAD in your opinion, is that it?
- OnlyMortal 5y agoIt originated on NeXTStep which used Display Postscript. The graphics primitives still apply to macOS.