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5 Sep 2024 19:24:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Today's venom: Acrobat  
From: Invisible
Date: 1 Jul 2009 04:23:38
Message: <4a4b1d0a$1@news.povray.org>
Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

> Similarly, there are tons of freeware readers, not just Acrobat.
> 
> Acrobat Reader is like Internet Explorer: many people think it's the only
> way, but it's actually the one with the most proprietary features and
> security holes, and there are alternatives.

I've yet to see an alternative that produces half-decent graphical 
output. (E.g., Ghostscript can display PostScript and PDF, but its 
output is so awful that every time I need to view a PostScript file, I 
have Ghostscript convert it to PDF just so I can view it with Acrobat.)


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