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Article #12188Re: PDF viewer for OSX?
From: AES
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:59
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:59
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In article <yobfxm0g754.fsf@panix3.panix.com>, BreadWithSpam@fractious.net wrote: > Preview mangles the things when you do a Save As from it. Loss of > almost all data (one field stayed filled! Really weird) and the > security settings for the PDFs get messed up for future use in > other programs. > > Damn you, Preview! > > > Moral: DO NOT use Preview to fill out your tax forms! It is too late > > to help you with your assignment, but this little lesson will definitely > > save me some grief come tax time. > > That lesson caused me a LOT of grief. More to the point, damn the Apple programmers, interface designers, manual writers, and documentation people, who didn't WARN us that things like this could happen. [Some third-party software creators are superb on this point, some are lousy -- and Appple is, at this point in time, right down there with the lousy ones.]
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