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- jakash, on 07/02/2008, -11/+254Foxit Reader: http://www.download.com/Foxit-PDF-Reader/3000-2079 ...
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -3/+116about time. Now for Flash....
- evilregis, on 07/03/2008, -8/+102I'll tell her you said 'hi'.
- r2builder, on 07/03/2008, -4/+84Just curious - is the .iso (disc image) format within the ISO standard?
- Al3x, on 07/03/2008, -12/+85I miss my girlfriend...:-(
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -3/+71Adobe's reader is crap. It uses much more ram to open the same document as Foxit.
- JARSInc, on 07/03/2008, -0/+60Yes.
"The name "ISO" is taken from the ISO 9660 file system used with CD-ROM media but the term ISO image can refer to any optical disc image, even a UDF image."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_image - Logal, on 07/03/2008, -5/+63Thank you Jeebus!.. I love PDF, it pisses me off when I have to send my resume as a .doc.... really.. what's wrong with these people?
- adidos, on 07/03/2008, -7/+53Preview.app
- kevman459, on 07/03/2008, -1/+41I loathed opening PDFs until I found Foxit.
- elmetald00d, on 07/03/2008, -0/+37are you joking? Foxit handles ebooks MUCH better.
Foxit opens in about... 2 seconds and closes quickly and looks nice doesn't take up 300MB of my ram
***** Adobe Reader - inactive, on 07/03/2008, -3/+39Hah! Go jack off to RealPlayer.
- gwolf, on 07/03/2008, -2/+36Bravo Adobe.
- TenebrousX, on 07/03/2008, -1/+27Hopefully this will allow for better libraries for programatically creating and modifying PDFs
- JoemcC00L, on 07/03/2008, -8/+32Open-Source PDF Reader: http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/
- Zanneth, on 07/03/2008, -5/+28PDF is so well-integrated into OS X that it's hard to believe that it wasn't a standard until now. Thankfully we should be having this kind of support available in Linux and Windows as well in the future.
- DefaultGen, on 07/03/2008, -0/+22Not to mention the fact that it takes 5 minutes to open a document, and then when it does it tells me there's a worthless update for Adobe Reader.
- benologist, on 07/03/2008, -1/+23"Everything that flash can do can be replaced with HTML, AJAX, SVG and Javascript."
No it can't, but thanks for trying. There's a lot more to Flash than making pretty transitions and simple animations. - viserov, on 07/03/2008, -0/+19From Wikipedia:
ISO is not an acronym or initialism for the organization's full name in either official language. Rather, the organization adopted ISO based on the Greek word ἴσος (isos), meaning equal. - sockpuppets, on 07/03/2008, -2/+19Mass hysteria. Dogs and cats, living together...
- AbsurdParadox, on 07/03/2008, -2/+19I wanted to digg you, but it was at 69.
- noelsusman, on 07/03/2008, -0/+16Yes, it is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660 - elmetald00d, on 07/03/2008, -1/+16Ill digg you up because that is one of the best builtin applications.
along with quickview on finder... - l0k0, on 07/03/2008, -1/+15Developers rejoice...
- cadmiumpaint, on 07/03/2008, -0/+14except get something professionally printed.
PDF is the universal printing format. Maybe you can get them an indesign or quark file, but most printers prefer PDF. NO chance in hell they'll even consider using some other kinda format. - inactive, on 07/03/2008, -2/+15NOW we can get rid of Adobe's reader? You still use it?
- bluekross, on 07/03/2008, -0/+13evilregis, your mother says to stop picking on Al3x.
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -0/+12Thanks for the heads up on that program, Adobe's flabby assed garbage reader keeps crashing my browser every time i mistakenly click on a pdf link. So much bloat, so many attempts to contact Adobe's servers quietly. One of the most unnecessarily invasive applications ever.
And don't get me started about their updater software. There is, and i'm not making this up, also an updater for the updater. Talk about collateral bloat. ***** Adobe. - stalefries, on 07/03/2008, -1/+12There's a difference between PDF integration and being able to print to PDF.
- JQP123, on 07/03/2008, -0/+11MS wanted to add native PDF support to Office 2007 and Vista but Adobe demanded royalties. In response, MS developed their own alternative called XPS. In response, Adobe submitted PDF to the ISO.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061120-8254 ... - JamesBrown, on 07/03/2008, -2/+13well Ubuntu (and other distros) already has PDF printing support built in. Windows has PDFCreator, which is a FOSS program that allows PDF printing. Doesn't come with Windows but it's a quick free download. So PDF support has been available in both Windows and Linux for quite a while now.
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -0/+11PDF is a recursive acronym for PDF Don't Float.
- zeptobyte, on 07/03/2008, -0/+10ISO standardization isn't a mark of quality, but a mark of.. uhh.. standardization. It means the standard will be published and freely available, so that anyone can easily write software to use the PDF format.
- and303, on 07/03/2008, -6/+16Good. Now we can use it without Adobe's slow and bloated excuse for a reader.
- KibibyteBrain, on 07/03/2008, -0/+10I think if I could pick one default mac app to have ported to other operating systems, it would be Preview. Just so good at what it does.
- benologist, on 07/03/2008, -0/+9Some things are hard, but the real problem is understanding what you can really do with Flash, and it can take a while to fully appreciate the capabilities you have at your disposal. You can do both those things you mentioned easily enough once you wrap your head around applying what flash has to what you want.
A lens effect could be done using duplicateMovieClip (or creating a new instance in AS3), stretching it so it's "zoomed in" and creating a mask (you can use a movieclip as a mask) to hide any overflow. In a game I guess you'd have a bunch of other things to put in the lens but it's just a more refined version of that process.
For a scrolling background it's even easier. onEnterFrame is your friend, it fires 1 / frameRate times per second, or in AS3 you might prefer to use the Timer class (used to be setInterval), then you're just increasing or decreasing the _x (or just x in AS3) property each time the enterframe or timer event occurs. You may get a little more complex and have to 'shuffle' some backgrounds to make a long background seamless but since you're tapped into an event firing each time it moves you've got the opportunity to check the position and reposition each portion accordingly. - inactive, on 07/03/2008, -0/+9NO ***** WAI ARE U SERIOUS
- jnorris441, on 07/03/2008, -0/+8International Organization for Standardization would be IOS, right?
- thecheatah, on 07/03/2008, -0/+8Come on man. There are like a million of them.
- Featherlake, on 07/03/2008, -0/+7Open office allows you to save docs as pdfs and has done so for a while now. Plus Open Office is free.
- fredmv, on 07/03/2008, -1/+8Evince, son, Evince.
- NerveBand, on 07/03/2008, -1/+8I really like FoxIt Reader, but sometimes rendering large images and objects takes lots of CPU horsepower and seriously take years to load on what should take a few seconds. Take the MTA subway map as my example. It also constantly redraws a PDF, something it shouldn't do just because I'm zooming in.
- taters05456, on 07/03/2008, -3/+10Finally, i've been hoping they would do that for a long time now.
- PhantomBantam, on 07/03/2008, -1/+7It basically means we can expect there to be more programs that use /read/write PDFs. Right now, as I understand it, it is somewhat locked down (try finding a free PDF editor that doesn't put on a watermark, and you don't need to be a programmer).
Not sure why you were dugg down. Digg snobs, I guess. - jtbandes, on 07/03/2008, -3/+9It's QuickLook, but you're still right.
- Enternal, on 07/03/2008, -0/+6@thecheatah
Hmm... perhaps you might want to work on your comprehension skills? - aenegeling, on 07/03/2008, -0/+6Actionscript 3.0 for most, will take months to learn.. but once you've got the core concepts under your belt it's a very powerful and robust language to use. For those interested, check out Colin Moock's Actionscrip 3.0 book.
- r2builder, on 07/03/2008, -0/+6Thanks. Now I know.
- smyph, on 07/03/2008, -0/+6A PDF allows a user to make sure that their resume is viewed as they design it and with the font they choose.
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