Dear Adobe Software,
I don't know what your night job is, but please, please quit your day job. PDF is a horrible format. Or maybe it's not. But Adobe Acrobat Reader is a horrible program. It's more bloated than Microsoft Internet Explorer and Michael Moore combined. It's slow, drags the entire computer to a halt while it loads, and then it cumbersome, unintuitive and annoying to use.
But it gets worse. You also offer a program called Adobe Acrobat, a more full-featured program that you can use to to create PDF's. I'm sorry, but scissors and tape are better tools for page layout than Acrobat. Oh, and it's slower than molasses and more bloated than the Reader, Microsloth IE, the afforementioned player-hater/film-documentarian and a well known fat film critic thrown in for good measure.
But you don't stop there. You layer insult on top of injury. When I view a PDF off the internet, you insist on loading the entire Acrobat program. But when I open a PDF on my own computer, then you load the Reader. Where is the justice in that?
We, the public, would benefit strongly from you sending everyone home, selling off your products and closing up shop.
Thanks for your consideration.
7 comments:
You can change the preferences somewhere in Explorer for which program you want to use to open files ending in a specific suffix, in this case .pdf. And the Macs come with Preview, a quick efficient little pdf viewer. PDFs are only good if you are sending files to other sources (like my pals at Kinkos) for printing. When configured properly, pdfs embed fonts and graphics without the need for linking files, rasterizing, etc. If you do your printing in house, Acrobat is useless. Keep the Reader for the odd online file and dump the sluggish Acrobat.
As for the well known fat film critic, Ebert did that stomach stapling thing. He now ways less than I do. His skin has yet to snap back to cling to his new body weight, so his face looks drawn and droopy.
We just got in two new DVDs this week, FahenHype 911 and Celsius 41.11, both attempts to counter the claims made in Moore's film. I've had several Orange County conservatives (there are a lot here, as you know) say the new releases hurt their cause more than helped it.
Ah, my friend, you are wrong about the application thing. If you have the full Acrobat program, it is impossible to get IE to open stuff from the web in just reader. Trust me, trust me, trust me on this.
Oh yeah?... Well... Well... You're a chicken.
Semi-seriously... I can do it on my Mac's Explorer, Safari and Firefox browsers. If your PC can't change it, time to switch to Apple, man.
Dude... when did my blog become the "Mock James" party?
Anyhow, ugh!!! I use a Mac for about 10 minutes every other month. Frustrates me to no end every time. I'm too used to the simplicity and ease of use of the PC's. I don't have the patience or time to use the Mac. Too slow. Not processor, because they are top of the line overkill G5s with obscene memory and harddrives and directly connected to their own XServe less than three feet away. Just takes me four times as long to do something on the Mac as it would on the PC due to the overly mousized interface (even on OX) and software that has fewer features on the Mac than the PC because the software developers (Novell, another anti-PC company) doesn't see the point because they know there's no market in it. What few keyboard shortcuts I can get to work satisfactorily still allow me to get the task done quicker than my boss, whose computer I use for the job.
Maybe I should go post snarky comments on your messages on your MSN Group. Hey... doesn't the M in MSN stand for Microsoft? How come you're not using some sort of sparkly little icute iBlog or iGroup?
Sparky?
MSN Groups is free. If they charged, I'd switch to someone else. Earthlink has the direct ties to Mac.com and their stuff didn't wow me. I have an SBCYahoo DSL account which is why I store my large files (movies, mp3s) on that server with links to the MSN Group. I suppose I could create a Yahoo group but it'd be a lot of effort for very little reward.
I don't know about the lack of shortcuts on a Mac. I use mostly Adobe software and when I worked at ex-kinkos I was constantly switching Mac to PC and back again. I couldn't notice the difference. Same with Microsoft products like Word or Excel.
Since upgrading my computer to OS X last year it hasn't frozen or crashed once, which was my chief complaint with system 9. And I got to use the dual processor on the G5 at my old job for awhile... virtually no lag time vs. the networked PCs at work which sometimes took over a minute just to open a freakin' zip disk.
And what are websites/blogs for if not for mocking?
You can change the preferences somewhere in Explorer for which program you want to use to open files ending in a specific suffix, in this case .pdf. And the Macs come with Preview, a quick efficient little pdf viewer. PDFs are only good if you are sending files to other sources (like my pals at Kinkos) for printing. When configured properly, pdfs embed fonts and graphics without the need for linking files, rasterizing, etc. If you do your printing in house, Acrobat is useless. Keep the Reader for the odd online file and dump the sluggish Acrobat.
As for the well known fat film critic, Ebert did that stomach stapling thing. He now ways less than I do. His skin has yet to snap back to cling to his new body weight, so his face looks drawn and droopy.
We just got in two new DVDs this week, FahenHype 911 and Celsius 41.11, both attempts to counter the claims made in Moore's film. I've had several Orange County conservatives (there are a lot here, as you know) say the new releases hurt their cause more than helped it.
Sparky?
MSN Groups is free. If they charged, I'd switch to someone else. Earthlink has the direct ties to Mac.com and their stuff didn't wow me. I have an SBCYahoo DSL account which is why I store my large files (movies, mp3s) on that server with links to the MSN Group. I suppose I could create a Yahoo group but it'd be a lot of effort for very little reward.
I don't know about the lack of shortcuts on a Mac. I use mostly Adobe software and when I worked at ex-kinkos I was constantly switching Mac to PC and back again. I couldn't notice the difference. Same with Microsoft products like Word or Excel.
Since upgrading my computer to OS X last year it hasn't frozen or crashed once, which was my chief complaint with system 9. And I got to use the dual processor on the G5 at my old job for awhile... virtually no lag time vs. the networked PCs at work which sometimes took over a minute just to open a freakin' zip disk.
And what are websites/blogs for if not for mocking?
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