Proof

Adobe PDFs are living hellish proof that people will use ANYTHING, no matter how aggravatingly horribly slow/inconvenient/annoying/stupid it is, if they think that that is what they are supposed to be using.

90% of the things that are .pdf documents on the web should be either html or XML documents. Or even just rtfs.

Just about EVERY document creator can create an html or XML version of your file just as easily if not more easily than creating a .pdf.

WHY DO MY SUPPOSED “COMPUTER” INSTRUCTORS INSIST ON MAKING SIMPLE TEXT DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENTS PDFs? Do they really think my one joy in life is waiting almost a full minute for the stupid adobe .pdf reader to open? If I wanted to do that I would just open and close Illustrator and Photoshop simultaneously over and over again crashing my computer multiple times in the process!

I shouldn’t need top of the line ram to quickly find out when my next assignment is due and what it is. It’s bad enough with cable modem and 512mb ram… I can’t imagine what it would be like on a truly “old” computer and dial up…

pdf was cool three years ago when no document writer could read another one, and creating html documents was something only “programmers” could do easily… Now, unless you have a highly stylized document (newsletter, newspaper, flier -NOT A CLASS ASSIGNMENT!!!!!) you should just put up an html file, an rtf, or an XML file.

…yeah…