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A Handful of Free and Cheap PDF Workarounds

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 3 comments
LinuxInsider; By Lou Dolinar 		Mail this story
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PDF files are a lot like democracy, to paraphrase Winston Churchill. PDFs are a lousy way to move documents around, but the alternatives are worse. I hate PDF files. Portable Document Format is a benevolent monopoly by Adobe, which created the format and sets the standards for its development.

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Comments (3)

ABCC ·
Doesn't anyone there actually bother to run Linux on their pc? Highlight to copy/middle click to paste (including tables) has been a feature in apps like kpdf and evince for a number of years.... What he's moaning about is a Windows problem!

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tracyanne ·
Quoting: Finally, the computer gave up and announced that the e-mail was too big to send, and suggested I break it up into multiple e-mails. I deleted the photos, reconfigured Windows Live Mail to automatically break up oversize files, then resent it.


Certainly looks like the author uses Windows and not Linux.
tuxchick ·
It also sounds like the author isn't much of a Windows user, either.

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