TallyMan wrote:
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Nitro PDF Software on Tuesday released a free reader built to break rival Adobe System's grip on the world's top digital document format.
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http://www.physorg.com/news194011919.htmlAnyone else tried it yet? I'm sick of Adobe reader and its bloat and endless security problems. Also sick of the fact that when it updates it insists on putting an icon on my desktop and in my start menu and adding itself to the system startup list. I also dislike the way it is so hit and miss pulling text out of PDF documents - sometimes it works sometimes it throws the text out one word per line. Really crappy software.
True, that desktop icon thing really takes the piss! Good software is advertised by word of mouth, so Adobe forcing people to advertise their product via a desktop icon speaks volumes...
How did Adobe become so popular in the first place? Oh, wasn't it the usual Microsoft-style 'buying competitors and others who did the actual invention process'?
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That 'emulator' concept of processing social data is a new one to me, but makes perfect sense.
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