All leading DBMS are much older than C++. PostGres and MySQL are written in C. I doubt hat Oracle and IBM rewrote their DBMS in C++. And of course Derby is written in Java.:-)
Care to show me the GPLed webserver that outshines Apache in marketshare? Or the GPLed DNS-server that outshines BIND in marketshare? Or the GPLed SSH implementation that dwarves OpenSSH's marketshare? And can you explain why Apache OpenOffice seems to win against LibreOffice? And when did Firefox switch to the GPL? And why are so many projects switching from GCC to LVM? So where in your world did the GPL win?
But of course, if you think that Linux is becoming the world's most used OS...
>Well, we haven't had a terrorist attack on our soil in 6 years.
Surely you mean 5 years?
>Much progress has been made on the International Space Station.
In fact it has been so little that your international partners are quite angry and have pointed out the treaties which require you to actually run the thing and not shut it down like you wanted to.
>And in 2 years there will be (yet another) orderly transition of power to the next president.
PDF is a proprietary format, that's right -- because PDF is a trademark of Adobe. But you are free to add your own keys to a PDF file (there's even the possibility to register prefixes of key with Adobe).
Compared to what? XML and DOC are usually larger. PDF provides compression (lzw,flate) and the overhead of the file format is relativly small.
The interface needs a lot of work, unless I have a scrolling mouse I won't even bother reading one. The little hand widget must go. Also, I don't want to have to resize my screen to be able to read half the poorly produced PDFs out there. No use in jumping to the next page when I can only display 2/3 of the current one. So back to the little hand.
Is this a critic of the Portable Document Format? You are talking about a specific viewer on a specific plattform for that; there are other viewers available (e.g. xpdf, gv, gsview). And even the Acrobat Reader has keyboard interface. You might want to read the manual.
They're non-editable for the most part once you make them.
PDF was never intended to be editable (You would know that if you had read the original paper). It's for viewing and sending to the printer. And you can add comments to it. It's great for sending to the printer (or printing house) because it's (in a way) simplified PostScript with all fonts attached.
They are in a closed format and controlled by a litigious company unafraid to use the DMCA for their own questionable ends.
PDF is a proprietary open format which can be extended by everyone (you should really check the specification ). And there will be an ISO version of it: PDF/X.
The plug-ins are notoriously buggy.
And this is a problem of the file format? Or are you talking about the reader working as a plug-in in your browser? Because the Acrobat plug-ins we use are not "notoriously buggy".
Its great for sending something straight to the laser printer, but as an on-line advance it really just stinks.
Show us something better for on-line reading with perfect layout and graphics that prints as intended. XHTML with CSS2? Where do I get a viewer for that that's as small and fast as Acrobat Reader?
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Sorry, but CSS isn't a copy protection technology of any kind.
Legally it is a copy protection technology which you are not allowed to circumvent.
Till this is confirmed by Theo, this is nothing more than rumour, which might actually harm the project.
All leading DBMS are much older than C++. PostGres and MySQL are written in C. I doubt hat Oracle and IBM rewrote their DBMS in C++. And of course Derby is written in Java. :-)
Care to show me the GPLed webserver that outshines Apache in marketshare? Or the GPLed DNS-server that outshines BIND in marketshare? Or the GPLed SSH implementation that dwarves OpenSSH's marketshare? And can you explain why Apache OpenOffice seems to win against LibreOffice? And when did Firefox switch to the GPL? And why are so many projects switching from GCC to LVM? So where in your world did the GPL win? But of course, if you think that Linux is becoming the world's most used OS...
>Well, we haven't had a terrorist attack on our soil in 6 years.
Surely you mean 5 years?
>Much progress has been made on the International Space Station.
In fact it has been so little that your international partners are quite angry and have pointed out the treaties which require you to actually run the thing and not shut it down like you wanted to.
>And in 2 years there will be (yet another) orderly transition of power to the next president.
Only if you have an election.
Do you have any source for your claim that Larry owns 1/3 of RH? Because I can't find his name here.
- support for PDF 1.6
- support for encryption
- much better support for forms
- support for JavaScript
- ...
Next time please actually research what you are talking about.Open sourcing the reader would probably also open source it's pdf rendering engine and it's font handling -- and that is still a very valuable IP.
The shuttle was a wrong design from the start and can't be fixed. Read this:
Try one of these.
Bitmap files for image setters can easily become huge. Think of 500x100(cm)x1000x1000(pixels).
If he really is it -- here are all the facts:
You could use GhostScript.
And if the authors had used pdfTeX, their PDF would actually be readle on-screen.
OGR sounds nice in theory, but the way distributed.net handles it is bullshit.
There have been no results posted for OGR-24 yet, i.e. we still don't know if this exercise made any sense.
There is an open standards version of PDF: PDF/X
You can easily embed Metadata in PDF 1.3++. See here.
PDF is not editable in general, although there are tools that allow some changes.
Of the java libraries only pj allows reading PDF; the others can only write PDF.
P.S.:And this has a score of 4? :-(
Add to that Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf. Unforgettable performance of Burton and Taylor.
So Coke and Pepsi can be sold around the world.