A Fun Read

Marc Clifton

People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith

Shog9 0

I got bored with the text after a bit, but the reader app was pretty slick... ten pages in, i suddenly realized what i was doing, and stopped to reflect that i hadn't had to wait for a single page to load... beating most experiences i've had with PDFs. :omg:

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i hope you are feeling sleepy for people not calling you by the same.

--BarnaKol on abusive words

Mike Hankey

Shog9 wrote:

I got bored with the text after a bit, but the reader app was pretty slick... ten pages in, i suddenly realized what i was doing, and stopped to reflect that i hadn't had to wait for a single page to load... beating most experiences i've had with PDFs.

Was nice wasn't it...I avoid PDFs, my machine gets constipated and unresponsive. Mike

Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear right until you hear them speak.

Lost User

Mike Hankey wrote:

Was nice wasn't it...I avoid PDFs, my machine gets constipated and unresponsive.

Try the free Foxit reader. Even lets you open more than one doc at a time.

Mike Dimmick

I'm astonished that Adobe gets any downloads at all. Foxit is just by far the better software, by such a margin it's almost unbelievable. Generally I don't agree with accusations of software bloat, but if Foxit Reader is missing any features that Adobe Reader has, I've never found them. Adobe's text rendering might be fractionally better but Foxit's is perfectly readable.

Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder

jluber

Then you haven't used Foxit to copy text from PDFs to other applications. The text in the Ecma 334 PDF must be sorted into the correct order and PDFs from Pragmatic Programmers lose all the spaces between the words. Or the bookmarks don't show chapter numbers. These are the little things for which Adobe had years to perfect. The only hope is that Foxit works on those problems or being only faster won't help them in the long run.

Mike Hankey

Thanks for the heads up I'll check it out! Mike

Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear right until you hear them speak.

Lost User

Study history then read Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill :-D