Subject: Re: Adobe Acrobat From: dowjone!rexb (Rex Ballard) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 94 03:06:55 EDT

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> Rex Ballard wrote:
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> >That's WONDERFUL.  Can I get a copy for my Sun?  How about for LINUX.  I
> >have about 30 VaxStations running VMS?  How about my 10 HPs?  What about
> >UNIWARE, SCO, SOLARIS, OS/2, and my HP firewall that only lets me run
> >Mosaic as an X-Client?
> 
> Rex,
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> There is an Acrobat reader for Sun workstations.

Well, I guess 1 out of 7 isn't too bad.

> PDF files can be edited by the currently available Adobe Illustrator 5.5
Isn't illustrator a bit expensive?  Do you have a sensible sight liscense?
Not exactly something I can justify for a few hundred users on the LAN.

> and Altsys has announced that Freehand will be able to do the same by next
How much is Freehand?

> summer when the Associated Press will start distributing all graphics in
> PDF form.
Well, if adobe is willing to give away readers (download them like you do Mosaic), and enough PCs get direct access to the internet without firewall restrictions, and the readership doesn't swamp the link, and the stock brokers, power users, and upper management are able to get access to acrobat for their pet machines (usually Mac or Sun), and network administrators on intermediate hosts don't get spooked by the traffic.....and the moon is full and it's tuesday :)  People might actually go for it.

Unix has been 2 years ahead of MS-DOS for over 10 years now, and the monotasking torturer of users has kept people patiently waiting for 10 years.  Even so, MS-DOS is the best selling operating system.

I suppose it was just a matter of time before the economic forces started to shut down access to the internet through the use of proprietary protocols.  Won't be long now before APPC comes back to lock up the network.  Soon we won't even have to worry about mailing lists like these filling up the mailbox, because they won't be allowed.

Many people worked very hard to make the internet accessible to as many people and technologies as possible.  Soon the only information available will be that created on $400 editors.  Maybe we should just publish in Microsoft Word format instead.

	Rex
	(Personal posting)


> Mark Loundy, Southern California

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