The Death of PDF?

[RabBell]

Is it just me, or is this a step too far

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7118363.stm

As if we're not hit by enough advertising online. I really wish one of the big tech companies would put people first once in a while instead of cash. Surely Adobe can't be skint. Surely they can afford to go "You know what, pdf's work...why mess with it? Make more money you say. No that's ok, we'll leave it". Instead of saying "Gimme, gimme, gimme".

Capitalist bastards :{

[eilsoe]

boooo!

[smithe_98]

I agree. Unbelievalbe. I thought Adobe was above this sort of thing.

[maxticket]

Capitalist bastards :{

I'm not happy with the decision either, but how about "Greedy bastards?"

Were it not for capitalism, Adobe wouldn't be around in the first place. But this is a bit too much for me. I'm already tired of declining the stupid Yahoo Bar every time I update my Flash Player.

[Templarian]

WTH... I will be the first person to download the Third Party hacked to death pdf viewer.

I do enough to block ads in firefox.

[ramie]

This is seriously bad news.

Where I work we do a lot of print work, PDF is essential, advertising inside a client presentation or similar is just not on, I wonder how much we'll have to pay to get the ad free version :( (we will pay and they know this, w***ers)

[Gundark]

I haven't used the Adobe PDF reader in a long time. There are several free options, I use the Foxit PDF reader. It's probably 10x as fast as Adobe Reader.

Of course, if you've got to create or edit PDFs you are still stuck with Acrobat....

[k77]

It's probably 10x as fast as Adobe Reader.

Appreciate that.

Adobe has probably the most slowest site I have come across. It LAGS always

[RabBell]

I haven't used the Adobe PDF reader in a long time. There are several free options, I use the Foxit PDF reader. It's probably 10x as fast as Adobe Reader.

Of course, if you've got to create or edit PDFs you are still stuck with Acrobat....

actually I use this to create pdf's

http://www.pdfforge.org/

it's free and reliable. Plus on testing it against acrobat for generating pdf's the pdfforge pdf's were always smaller but just as good quality.

Might just download the "the Foxit PDF reader" you mention and cut Adobe out of the picture altogether (in PDF terms).

[Templarian]

I just print to PDF, plus Office gives me so many simple and nice themes takes two second to make a professional Document (can't edit pdf's though).

I would love to see Firefox change their download plugin option to some 3rd party.

[Christov]

Oh this is just fantastic... >_>
Most of my job involves proofreading documents and converting them to PDF and distributing them, as well as viewing existing PDFs all day etc. This is going to completely ruin my work experience, idiots...

[evildrummer]

I think I might have it wrong, but I interpret it as this:

The CREATOR of a PDF can choose to have ads on the side related to the content so they can make money.

[DanontheMoon]

I think it's extremely bad marketing. Besides, so what? You can close the panel if it bugs you that badly.




Capitalist bastards

Survey says... Oooh, I'm sorry, Capitalist bastards was not on the survey.
'Corporate Bastards', 'Commercial Whores' or 'Corporatist Scum' were, but you've lost this round of Family Feud. ;)

Perhaps you need a better understanding of the system that, ideally, rewards those who produce; that's based on the principle of individual rights! You can't blame an entire philosophy for the misdeeds of a few. I'm with MaxTicket. :beam:

http://www.capitalism.org

[Templarian]

I didn't even read the article earlier but yea your right evil.

The service will allow publishers to make money by including adverts linked to the content of a PDF document in a panel at the side of the page.

[thats all folks]

As long as it’s done in a tasteful way, who cares? Much like google ads & banner ads, people will get over it.

[maxticket]

So it shouldn't really bother me unless they put it in their reader . . . which could very well happen. But then again, there are those third-party readers. Hooray for developers. There's one thing I agree with Steve Ballmer on--just not as repetitively.

[mlk]

I think I might have it wrong, but I interpret it as this:

The CREATOR of a PDF can choose to have ads on the side related to the content so they can make money.

So this means the end user can turn them off at will ?

I've seen a number of static ads in pdf but surely dynamic ads will be easy to block (firewall the bugger for instance)

I use foxit reader as well. light and easy !

[wo1olf]

this advertising thing is going too far...
well then let's all go flashPaper... so they won't ... oh wait they're the same who make it D'Oh