[PLUG] What's with 'nppdf32Log' and acroread 9?

[wes]

hmmm I'm pretty sure I meant facto.

"PDF" is the de jure standard, Acrobat's special variety is the de facto
standard.

de jure means "by the rules" while de facto means "in fact" (implying
"despite the rules, this is the reality of the situation")

thankfully, this is changing, albeit slowly.

-wes


On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Rigel Hope <gnu at rigelhope.org> wrote:

> s/facto/jure/
>
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 6:48 PM, wes <plug at the-wes.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Rigel Hope <gnu at rigelhope.org> wrote:
> >
> >> "...they are designed specifically to be displayed by other adobe
> >> products..."
> >>
> >> There are so many PDF creators, some of which follow the ISO
> >> specifications (
> >>
> http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=51502
> >> and related), some of which dont very well, that i don't think that
> >> this statement makes much sense.
> >>
> >>
> > creators as in software applications which can be used to create PDFs?
> sure.
> >
> > creators as in people who create PDFs? most of them use adobe products to
> > create them. most of those who don't, use products tailored to create
> PDFs
> > for viewing by acrobat reader.
> >
> > that said, even if it is still more than half, this number is dwindling
> > steadily as other large organizations take on adobe's de facto standard.
> > apple and google have written PDF viewers that are not entirely lame.
> >
> > -wes
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