Acrobat at least hasn't been relevant for over a decade outside of niche concerns (like javascript-enabled pdfs, which I have seen exactly twice in the wild... these should be illegal by the way). You can't say the same about microsoft.
This is not true IME, because PDF and PostScript are so tightly coupled. If your PDF renderer doesn't tightly align with Acrobat, it's highly likely to not print correctly, hence Acrobat __is__ the spec.
I feel the pain having had to build a browser based pdf editor with features not found anywhere else. React was hammered into working and turned out pretty good. But my god, it was quite a journey. As with all enterprise projects, this one was shelved because business changed their minds. Two years of figuring it out just wasted …
IE was used well until EOL and is still being used in some places. I have no doubt Adobe Acrobat is the same way. Likely few if any new users but old ones will keep using what they're familiar with.
why would I agree to that when I'm not at risk of that? (Assume for discussion I have had this tested - whatever it is). I have my own life and like everyone more things (including vacation...) I want to spend it money on than I have money.
Some of us think that a key aspect of society is that we take care of each other. If something terrible happens to you before you manage to amass a fortune, it’s nice to live in a society that won’t leave your family destitute.
True, but reductio ad absurdum is a good way to make any argument look silly without actually considering nuance. Of course, there's some limit to what society will do to save an individual. If someone is lost at sea, we'll try to save them, but we won't spend $1T rerouting all of our available naval capabilities to do it. How much should we spend? The math isn't clear, and thus the economics aren't clear. But, where we should fall is somewhere on a gradient between "Every man for himself" and "Save every individual at all costs."
The question is, where do we fall on that gradient?
Some of us don't like paying for other people who make objectively bad decisions that cause them to need to be bailed out in some way.
There's nothing wrong with taking care of others, but there has to be limits. Hopefully the limits are designed in ways that encourage objectively good choices and discourage objectively bad ones.
Things are not that simple. Spending money on the toys/experiences I want also increases my community. As does investing in the future. Helping the poor does increase society as well, but it isn't clear which investment helps society the most (there is no one correct answer).
Wow, that is a depressing point of view. Advancements in "not paying for things" accelerates while advancements in "preventing things" just inches forward.
It was unstable but it was nice to use. It introduced a lot of UI elements that are now taken for granted. I remember starting to build a window manager that replicated the win95 look.
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