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Re: N:Vision CFL's



On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 17:17:55 -0400, "Robert Green"
<ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
<wtmdnSruJahHmJrbnZ2dnUVZ_sSmnZ2d@xxxxxxx>:

>"Dave Houston" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:460658e6.837921406@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> "Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> >>      http://www.st.com/stonline/products/literature/an/4042.pdf
>> >
>> >PDF?  I don't support no stinkin' proprietary document formats when you
>> >consider all the effort that's gone into the Web to make it free from
>such
>> >lunacy.  (-:

>> For commercial users, PDF makes sense because they are not as easily
>> tampered with as other formats. OpenOffice makes creating them easy (and
>> free) while Adobe supplies a free reader.
>
>They're completely over-used, IMHO, by folks too lazy to create an HTML
>page.

ROTFL

The great preponderance of moderately complex documents prepared for public
distribution are in pdf in my experience.

Why don't you proclaim "Y'all are too lazy" at a public meeting?

That, as you say, would make their "jaws drop".

>PDF's are designed for mythical beings who possess with two,
>vertically oriented, specially oversized monitors running side by side from
>a dual head graphics card.

Seems like I'm mythical.  Neat! ;-)

...Marc
Marc_F_Hult
www.EControl.org


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