Re: [orca-list] Trying Quantal Quetsal Alpha 3

[Krishnakant Mane <krmane gmail com>]

HI Kile,

On 08/02/2012 06:44 AM, Kyle wrote:
> I use pdftotext all the time with a good deal of success. As a side note, is there any similar tool yet that 
> can convert a PDF document to an ODF format or Latex or similar open and unencumbered format that is not 
> controlled by a single company? These things are just as cross-platform and can be made just as secure. In 
> fact, for security, nothing beats an encrypted filesystem. I will say again, why in the world did so many 
> people come to let a single company (Adobe) get so much control over our documents?


Such criminal and digital terrorism activities keep happening until 
masses get a big shock when some nation or community gets hit by such 
digital control.
I support Kile and from shear experience claim that such a monopolistic 
control on our documents is dangerous for the society.
> BTW, I read somewhere that one state in the U.S. either switched or tried to switch all their public 
> documents to ODF, but when they did this, there was a huge outcry from  visually impaired people who, instead 
> of complaining about this somehow being bad for accessibility, should have instead worked with developers to 
> either make existing applications accessible to screen readers or develop new applications to read and write 
> ODF documents.


Just the lack of awareness and nothing else.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.