On 5 Apr 1999, Eric Smith wrote:
> > Are you insane? The excrutiatingly slow and bloated Microsoft Word
> > screams compared to Acrobat.
>
> Not when the Word file contains 300 DPI scanned images.
Still, the point is they're both slow and annoying and I hate them both.
Ok, I do like the very beautiful formatted pages that can be had with PDF,
but its just too slow and bloated to be useful to me at this juncture in
my computer technology arsenal. I would probably like PDF more as the
preferred format for old computer documentation if I had like a dual
Pentium II 450 system with scads of hard drive storage, a superfast
graphics accelerator, coupled with my super-fast cable modem connection to
the internet. But the fact is I don't, and not many other people do
either.
If Adobe could make the page updates 100% faster and the storage
requirements 100% smaller then they'd have a true breakthru. I guess
they're like Microschlock, waiting for the hardware to catch up to the
code bloat.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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