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On 03/09/2011 10:30 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> But why is it that academic authors have a chronic inability to release any
> form of text without first cramming it into a goddamn PDF of all things?
> This is one example of why I despise Adobe's predominance: PDF is fucking
> useless for anything but printing, and no one seems to know it. Isn't it
> about time the ivory tower learned about Mosaic? The web is more than a
> PDF-distribution tool...Really! It is! Welcome to the mid-90's. Sheesh.

Agreed. Actually, AFAIK, pdf was born as a paper-printing format (ps legacy, in 
fact). That's why it systematically has white background.

(Thank godS, Unbuntu's doc viewer recently got an "inverse video" mode. Unthank 
gods, white on black is far to be the most legible color combination. Anyway, 
better than the opposite...)

Denis
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