Subject: Adobe Acrobat From: jvncnet!lightside.com!loundy (Mark Loundy) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 20:50:21 -0800

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>Rex Ballard wrote:

>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.

Acrobat Reader is available for free download on several sites. Adobe also
permits unlimited redistribution of the Reader. There is a Solaris Reader.

I think that your concerns about the cost of Freehand and Illustrator are
misplaced. If anybody is going to be doing that sort of editing, they will
already have one or the other.

I doubt that the fact that simply some of the material on the 'net is
produced with expensive hardware that it will mean a diminshment of the
experience here. remember, the reader is free and not everything will be in
PDF. Plain text will continue to be the vehicle of choice for most
communication.

I have no axe to grind for Adobe. I just use some of their products. The
plan outlined by Altsys, Adobe and the AP seems to me that it will be quite
successful in the limited arena newspaper industry.

Mark Loundy, Southern California                Telecommunications Chair, NPPA
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From jvncnet!netcom.com!gstephan Tue Nov  8 16:13:56 1994