With more and more file size bloat for the Adobe Reader application, I’m getting more and more irritated that Adobe’s not letting up on their exclusion of Microsoft’s rights to include a PDF writer with the next version of Office. Brian Jones said this on his blog, sums it up pretty well, at least the confused part.
Adobe said that they view PDF as an open standard that is freely available without any restrictions or royalties required. That’s really great, and it was why we felt there would be no problems when we started the work at the beginning of the project to support PDF output. That’s also what had led to my initial confusion around why our built in support had become a problematic issue for Adobe.
Brian quotes an interview with Bruce Chizen of Adobe in his post:
What we have done over the last five years is added functionality beyond PDF creation in our product line-up. If you look at Acrobat today it is much more than just simple PDF creation.
YEAH! And that’s why it’s a stinkin’ 20MB+ download, the continually phones home more than WGA to grab more updates and file bloat from the mother ship for stuff I don’t want or need it to do! I just want to open and read a flippin’ PDF file quickly!
Can someone please explain to me why Adobe has opened up for other 3rd party businesses but isn’t mandated to allow Microsoft the same functionality as other software companies?
What do you use for PDF reading? Please let me know in the comments. I’m currently using CutePDF for printing to PDF when I need to, which is working great. DL.tv recommended Foxit Reader on their recent podcast. Has anyone here used it? Let me know.
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