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Article #12189Re: PDF viewer for OSX?
From: Tom Stiller
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:13
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:13
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In article <siegman-05CA20.13592509112008@news.stanford.edu>, AES <siegman@stanford.edu> wrote: > 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.] I think that's a little harsh. Apple has to provide software sufficient to showcase their hardware and convince people to buy it. However, the software should not be so good that third party developers are shut out of the market. -- Tom Stiller PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3 7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF
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From: Tom Stiller <tom_stiller@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: PDF viewer for OSX?
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