On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 12:56 +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
At Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:12:47 +0100, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 01:39 +0200, Markus wrote:
But my question is more if non-free software is always bad or are there situations were you could say "It's bad that i don't have all the freedoms, but i just need the tool do get a job done and if it does the job it's ok" For example if i get an PDF which can displayed only by the acrobat reader. Should i say "the reader is bad because it's non-free" and don't read the PDF or should i just use the acrobat reader to read this one document? I think you could tell very few people to do the first thing.
You should ask whoever generated that PDF to generate a standard PDF, instead of one with Adobe extensions, or in fact say it's a corrupted PDF, so you can't read it.
And somebody should write a decent PDF reader, but that's a different story...
evince, although not perfect, is quite good.
Rui