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  From: Alex Garner <alex@netcraft.com.au>
  To  : Nick Morrison <nickm@bhwb.nsw.gov.au>
  Date: Mon, 17 Jan 100 11:44:15 +1030 (CST)

Re: Licensing and registration feedback

> > > I think HTML is the way to go, or maybe RTF.  PDF really annoys me.
> > > Recently I had to uninstall Acrobat Reader 4 and then install
> > > Acrobat Reader 3 since the PDF file had a password/encryption method
> > > that was only supported by version 3. (this was on my windows
> > > machine though). I also think that Acrobat is hard to read on the
> > > screen. Maybe plain text is the way to go so nobody can complain.
> > 
> > I don't recall a recent distribution of linux that _doesn't_ come with
> > a .pdf viewer of some description?
> 
> But not everybody runs linux - isn't the idea here to try to pick a good
> universal standard for documents issued by govt departments etc?  But, as
> somebody pointed out earlier, this could be a fruitless exercise.

You missed the subtlety of the post. This was in response to a
post about the annoyance of installing acrobat in windows on a Linux
mailing list.

You probably get it now!

Cheers

Alex!


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