Comment Re:MS Paint (Score 1) 563
first post indeed :) Sorry about the formating, here's a more readable version..
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Comparing a PDF and a Word document is like comparing oranges and apples... The logic and power behind the PDF is that it's a printer driver. You can output from any software to PDF, and this is quite far from what Word is supposed to do.
There is no native editor for the PDF format: you can't create a new document and just start typing from scratch with Acrobat, you need something to start from (image, text file, webpage, etc). Adobe now packages Acrobat Designer with the professional Acrobat suite, and this is the only exception as you can start interactive forms from scratch in this software.
But I digress... My initial motivation for posting was that no one seems to have noticed that Microsoft integrated a direct competitor to the PDF in the latest Office Suite.
It's called Microsoft Office Document Image Writer (.mdi) and is a printer driver just like Acrobat.
As for the Adobe/Macromedia merger editorial comment (tm), I'm a web developper/designer that is using daily both companies' products, and I really hope this does good to the web. It truly could. I'm just hoping that the web portion (Macromedia) keeps listening to the developers and adopt the Adobe gui (far more stable/logical) and quality (no more alpha releases like the initial Flash MX 2004).
I've also read that the merger could be a strategic alliance to be able to reply to Longhorn's XAML integration.. Opinions?
http://www.xamlon.com/software/xamlonpro/flash/
Lots of changes in the air..
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Comparing a PDF and a Word document is like comparing oranges and apples... The logic and power behind the PDF is that it's a printer driver. You can output from any software to PDF, and this is quite far from what Word is supposed to do.
There is no native editor for the PDF format: you can't create a new document and just start typing from scratch with Acrobat, you need something to start from (image, text file, webpage, etc). Adobe now packages Acrobat Designer with the professional Acrobat suite, and this is the only exception as you can start interactive forms from scratch in this software.
But I digress... My initial motivation for posting was that no one seems to have noticed that Microsoft integrated a direct competitor to the PDF in the latest Office Suite.
It's called Microsoft Office Document Image Writer (.mdi) and is a printer driver just like Acrobat.
As for the Adobe/Macromedia merger editorial comment (tm), I'm a web developper/designer that is using daily both companies' products, and I really hope this does good to the web. It truly could. I'm just hoping that the web portion (Macromedia) keeps listening to the developers and adopt the Adobe gui (far more stable/logical) and quality (no more alpha releases like the initial Flash MX 2004).
I've also read that the merger could be a strategic alliance to be able to reply to Longhorn's XAML integration.. Opinions?
http://www.xamlon.com/software/xamlonpro/flash/
Lots of changes in the air..
