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Re: MS Access and Acrobat 5.05 Problem

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From: Aandi Inston
Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 11:12
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It is obviously not a bug, and I would expect a programmer to understand that. A bug is where a program does not properly do the job it was designed to do.

Do spread the word. The more people who stop this lunatic reliance on an unsupported interface the better.

Ask in those groups what would happen if someone discovered an interface in Windows that Microsoft had not documented. Would they be surprised if it stopped working on a software upgrade? I hope not. Adobe have over 10,000 pages of documentation on the interfaces they do support - so why not use them instead of wingeing about the unsupported ones which are - shock horror - unsupported.

If anyone has developed a product it should be very clear what they should say to their users: "We made a bad decision and developed using a part of Acrobat Reader not intended for that purpose. Because of our bad decision, we recommend you don't upgrade Acrobat Reader."

(This is of course a personal view. Adobe would say the same thing but much more politely, I suspect).
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