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I wonder why Acroread which is the
package from Adobe available in Linux is inaccessible. It's in
QT. All the menus are accessible. All the dialogs are too. You
can even set up the accessibility setup assistant Adobe put in
there for you to be able to read pdf's accessibly. Then, you only
get one line from it though. I can't figure out why that is. I
tried it in Ubuntu Precise and I can't imagine things are any
better in Quantal.
Alex M
On 8/1/2012 9:49 PM, Speedy wrote:
Adobe won out with the PDF format because even though it was cross
platform, it reliably, exactly could reproduce the same page
layout and fonts on screen and when printed from any platform.
This is a huge deal for most corporations and schools! It was a
huge, difficult problem a decade ago! I do not think this is
possible with a HTML document today.
Adobe has had a stranglehold on their proprietary PDF format over
the years. They have submitted the basic PDF format as a Open
International Standard. Of course, they continue to add
proprietary additions to the product, which they usually submit as
proposed extensions to the standard. Note they intend to continue
to tie you to their products to use the proprietary extensions.
In the next release of Microsoft Word, it should allow you to open
and edit and resave a PDF document.
On 8/1/2012 9:54 PM, Alex Midence wrote:
On
8/1/2012 8:33 PM, Kyle wrote:
I never said that anyone should feel
pressured to use Linux or lose their jobs. It would
<snip>
Neither did I. I meant that they didn't know that Linux would
provide them with an accessible way to view ODF files. The
application that writes them, Open Office, at the time, was not
accessible in Windows. So, they thought they were going to be
out of a job because the file format they were going to use was
made by an inaccessible application. Now, do you understand?
As for being forced to switch to Windows, Mac or Linux, I mean,
you use whatever system is in use by the company you work for.
You don't always have a choice in the matter. If the boss uses
Windows for his business and you want a job there, guess what
you have to know how to use so you can work with the rest of the
team? Again, if he uses Linux, same thing. I've even heard of
people being obligated to use a particular desktop system
because that's what the company used and the sysadmins were
invlexible. I seem to recall someone on this list not being
able to take advantage of a job opportunity because KDE was the
system of choice at the place he applied at. At home,
personally, I prefer using LInux for some things and Windows for
others. If I had an iDevice, I'd use it for specific things it
worked better with. I am not a developer so, I am more
concerned with using software than writing it. My contributions
to open source and free software are in the area of helping with
questions where I can and writing the odd documentation file or
two. All that stuff about litigations and one company
controling this or that does not concern me because I don't
code. I admit it would suck if an app I like got screwed over
by something like that but I don't know that I'd be up in arms
about it unless it was crucial to my livelihood or something. I
believe Adobe controls PDF because they created it. That, and
they have made a name for themselves in the area of creative
production software. Their reputation in the industry is
well-deserved and their software isn't priced too highly, in my
opinion. I use it at work and am very satisfied with it.
Alex M
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