hex hates software: Adobe Acrobat Reader

• From: Earle Martin
  Date: 13:19 on 14 Sep 2005
  Subject: Adobe Acrobat Reader
  
  As of version 7 or something, there now exist editable PDF forms. And of
  course, what Adobe invents, people will slavishly follow, so these forms are
  starting to crop up on websites when there exists the need for a form for
  you to print out, fill out and mail off somewhere. What was wrong with
  plain old HTML? Nothing. Morons.
  
  But of course, this is a version 7 thing. So I had to upgrade the
  Acrobat Reader on my Win98 box, because I only had version 5 installed. And
  can I? No. Adobe won't let Win98 users go past v6. So unless I upgrade my 
  entire operating system, I can't use forms on some websites. How hateful.
  
  More hateful still is that one particular form I could not avoid having to
  print out, so I actually had to go out and print it from an internet cafe.
  Only, every internet cafe in the entire world only has Acrobat version 5
  installed. So when I picked a place I had to upgrade Acrobat myself. Thus
  not only paying richly for the paper I was printing on, but the time I had
  to spend upgrading someone else's computer.
  
  Hate. Hate. Hate. Hate.
  
  
  

• From: Peter da Silva
  Date: 15:47 on 14 Sep 2005
  Subject: Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader
  
  
  On Sep 14, 2005, at 7:19 AM, Earle Martin wrote:
  
  > As of version 7 or something, there now exist editable PDF forms. And 
  > of
  > course, what Adobe invents, people will slavishly follow, so these 
  > forms are
  > starting to crop up on websites when there exists the need for a form 
  > for
  > you to print out, fill out and mail off somewhere. What was wrong with
  > plain old HTML? Nothing. Morons.
  
  If I run into one of these I'm going to bitch to every email address I 
  can find on the site, badmouth that site in particular on every 
  relevant forum I can find, and if I have to actually use the form I 
  will figure out a way to use it that's as unpleasant and expensive for 
  them to deal with as possible.
  
  I do not use ANY version of Acrobat, and I WILL not use any version of 
  Acrobat. If the native support for PDF on Mac OS X doesn't work, then 
  to hell with them.
  
  
  

• From: David Champion
  Date: 15:51 on 14 Sep 2005
  Subject: Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader
  
  * On 2005.09.14, in <20050914121921.GR14470@xxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>,
  *	"Earle Martin" <hates-software@xxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
  > you to print out, fill out and mail off somewhere. What was wrong with
  > plain old HTML? Nothing. Morons.
  
  It's not a *portable* document format!
  
  
  

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