July 3, 2008
PDF is a standard, ISO that is
Posted Jul. 3, ’08, 7:38 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Software
One of the more common document types in my vast archive is PDFs. I’ve had a long standing habit of converting documents I’m done with into them, maintaining the original if there was a chance I might revisit it for editing. As I saw it, PDFs had the most longevity (other than plain text files) out of any of the working formats I might be using (go ahead and ask Mac Wordperfect users).
While I knew they had longevity, there was nothing really backing that up other than market momentum. Now the ISO has put its backing behind the format. This is good news for PDF archive nuts like myself. My documents folder and Yojimbo has more than I could realistically convert to some other format. This ensures more longevity and also effectively hands control of the format over to the organization.
In related news, Adobe released Reader 9. This is the latest version of Adobe’s PDF reader. It can now show PDFs containing Flash videos (just what everyone’s always wanted). I do keep a copy of this on my Macs for the sole purpose of using forms. Otherwise, I find any of the number of PDF readers based off the OS X built in engine superior for pretty much every other purpose.
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Flash support in Reader _is_ something we've been hoping for since the Adobe/Macromedia merger. We finally have a way to deliver offline Flash apps without using an app/exe.
Sucked especially for Mac users because -- well, just this morning I tried to download a physics-based Flash game only to find out it was available as an exe only. Worse: an exe with over 100 asset files. Going forward this can be a single file. A cross-platform PDF.
^^ Well the downside is that online magazines are gonna flood their PDFs with flashy ads.
Is there an option within the reader to turn flash off?