25th August 2003, 2:39 PM
The same reason I do. They have as far as I can tell no advantage over HTML documents (in fact HTML can do MORE), yet manage to take up so many resources when using them the system slows down just loading them, even my new system! Scrolling skips around like it shouldn't, and it's just annoying using them all around. I see no reason why anyone would embed a document in PDF form when they could simply use HTML plus images and such in a zip file. Extract to a folder, bam, you got all you need.
Is there something about PDF that actually makes it useful... at all? Maybe I wouldn't hate the files so much if they would just make it far more resource friendly, fast in loading and execution.
Is there something about PDF that actually makes it useful... at all? Maybe I wouldn't hate the files so much if they would just make it far more resource friendly, fast in loading and execution.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)