Tech Magazines going electronic.

[John Perry]

Robert wrote:

...
Are you talking about embedding URLs in the PDF document to call home to the
Author? Or that Adobe gives that capability to the author of a page?

Both, if I understand your first question.

If so I

didn't know about the latter. Either way I can shut my firewall while
reading documents I don't trust.

As you can with html. But with a modern browser you don't need to.

I worry about other capabilities of HTML.

It seems like part of the way towards a programming language and I don't
know how much of the way it really is.

Html is a text markup language, and that's it. Period. It's the other
things, javascript, java, visual basic, etc, that do the damage if you
let them. Adobe reader now supports javascript, just like html. But
Adobe Reader doesn't let you turn off javascript. Modern web browsers do.

http://lwn.net/Articles/129729/

John Perry

 

[Jerry Steiger]

"Kman" <kengineering@peoplepc.com> wrote in message
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The underlying principles and mathematics necessary to derive the
solutions are buried in user friendly software and overly simplified for
the masses.

However, I do like spell check ;&gt

So do I, but the same principles hold there as well. Don't you love seeing
the misspelled words where the writer didn't know that the spell checker
gave him the write spelling for the wrong word?

Jerry Steiger
Tripod Data Systems
"take the garbage out, dear"

 

[Kman]

Or in my case, leave in an extra word left over from the previous rewrite.
Microsoft would really help me out if they would add a "gray cell" (i.e. old
fart) spell checker.



Kman



"Jerry Steiger" <jerrys@tdsway.garbage.com> wrote in message
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"Kman" <kengineering@peoplepc.com> wrote in message
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The underlying principles and mathematics necessary to derive the
solutions are buried in user friendly software and overly simplified for
the masses.

However, I do like spell check ;&gt


So do I, but the same principles hold there as well. Don't you love seeing
the misspelled words where the writer didn't know that the spell checker
gave him the write spelling for the wrong word?

Jerry Steiger
Tripod Data Systems
"take the garbage out, dear"

 

[Kman]

Guess so
When they mail out those annoying little packets of advertisement cards you
might guess where I archive them.

Kman


"Jerry Steiger" <jerrys@tdsway.garbage.com> wrote in message
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"Kman" <kengineering@peoplepc.com> wrote in message
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I don't know how others use these
magazines, but I barely notice the advertisements and go straight to
articles of interest if you can find one.


That's interesting, Ken. We re polar opposites. I barely notice the
articles in many of my engineering magazines and focus on the ads!

On the other hand, I really do enjoy a good article. When I can find one,
that is.

Jerry Steiger
Tripod Data Systems
"take the garbage out, dear"