> I definitely see a need that PDF fulfills. The free software > community should either fully support it or come up with an > alternative. Send patches... There is a need for various kinds of smart document, but it actually makes PDF more hazardous the more scriptable it is. It becomes easier and easier to bury other 'activities' into a form - you've no idea for example if your tax form quiety squirrels away old versions of any field you then re-edit (eg so they can use it to profile returns for possible fraud), you've less idea what it communicates with. There are already problems with "smart" electronic documents becoming unusable for business contracts because even if digitally signed they can contain obfuscated magic to change the value of the contract or the completion date without changing the signature. IMHO it's unfortunate Adobe is loading so much stuff into PDF rather than clearly separating out 'trustable thing I distribute and read' from 'application in a document'. Alan -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
