The reason Acrobat's become so bloated is because Adobe's trying to crack the business forms market, which would be worth billions.
Microsoft sees all forms of office productivity as its turf, and is therefore planning to wipe Acrobat off the face of the earth.
The wild card here could actually be Apple. I've often been frustrated by the fact that current forms technology isn't easily tied to a database.
The whole idea of a paperless office depends on receiving a form and integrating the data easily into a database. Having to retype thousands of e-mailed forms is pointless.
Apple owns the only real cross-platform consumer database on the market. And Preview in Tiger debuts the ability to fill out PDF forms.
Imagine if Filemaker could generate PDF forms specially keyed to a database, and the filled out forms could be emailed back and the results added/updated to the database file with one click.
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Microsoft sees all forms of office productivity as its turf, and is therefore planning to wipe Acrobat off the face of the earth.
The wild card here could actually be Apple. I've often been frustrated by the fact that current forms technology isn't easily tied to a database.
The whole idea of a paperless office depends on receiving a form and integrating the data easily into a database. Having to retype thousands of e-mailed forms is pointless.
Apple owns the only real cross-platform consumer database on the market. And Preview in Tiger debuts the ability to fill out PDF forms.
Imagine if Filemaker could generate PDF forms specially keyed to a database, and the filled out forms could be emailed back and the results added/updated to the database file with one click.
Wow.
Originally posted by groverat
There's really no one to blame but Adobe, who has sat fat and lazy on the PDF format.
Acrobat Reader is atrocious. Even version 7, which brings much needed speed improvements, is very very slow. And all for a damned read-only document.
As was said above, if they had kept their format open, lean and fast we wouldn't be here. Thank God SOMEONE is trying to create a little competition.
well, as mentioned on this thread Apple's Preview and "save as PDF..." gave them a good kick up the bum.
now for microsoft to put some fear into them