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The purpose of a format is also to make that content accessible. If somebody has no PDF reader, how do you send them well-formatted documents? The only thing th
by unalone 18y ago
The purpose of a format is also to make that content accessible. If somebody has no PDF reader, how do you send them well-formatted documents? The only thing that comes close to working is something like .ppt, but that's an ugly solution (and what if they don't have PowerPoint?). Scribd gives a nice medium where you don't need anything beyond Flash to view content. For a lot of people, that's very useful.
- palish 18y agoWhile I agree with you in spirit, in practice pretty much everyone has a PDF reader in addition to Flash.
- axod 18y agoSo instead of asking them to use a pdf viewer, you're relying on them having a flash viewer installed instead :/
- unalone 18y agoWell, Windows has Flash preinstalled but not Acrobat. I have a lot of friends who can't read PDFs; I can't, when I'm on Windows.
- rantfoil 18y agoOn the PC, It's a latency problem. Acrobat is such a disaster that you do have to WAIT before anything ever shows up. Scribd at least is far more instant.