- From: Access Systems <accessys@smart.net>
- Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 21:51:22 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
- Cc: William R Williams <wrwilliams@fs.fed.us>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Nick Kew wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, William R Williams wrote:
>
> > "For online reading, however, PDF is the monster from the Black Lagoon. It
> > puts its clammy hands all over people with a cruel grip that doesn't let
> > go."
>
> > Is anyone willing to agree or disagree with this stance? Can anyone, as
> > users, report definite problems with rendering PDF files?
>
> I find it a constant problem, for the simple reason that it's grossly
> inflexible. I usually need to increase the text size, but even without
> that a PDF viewer needs an uncomfortably wide window that precludes
> having anything else of meaningful size visible. At best it hogs the
> desktop - and gives me a headache after the first two or three pages.
not to mention the accessiblity (sic) features ONLY work on a windoze
machine, anyone using dos, mac, linux, unix, solaris etc is just outta
luck
Bob
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve Neither liberty nor safety", Benjamin Franklin
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