[pdftex] PDF being satirised (as an agent of genocide?).

[William F. Adams]

On Nov 30, 2004, at 7:39 AM, Michael Chapman wrote:

> More an Adobe issue, but it does spill over to PDF generally:
>
> Without wishing to get into commenting on the politics of genocide, I 
> was
> surprised to note that Ted Rall satirises PDF documents in one of his 
> latest
> comic strips, at:
>
> http://images.ucomics.com/comics/trall/2004/trall041129.gif

That's reaching.

For a real insight into US / European foreign policy read Karl Meyer's 
_The Dust of Empire_. Granted, I'm kind of irked about how Adobe and 
pdf viewer developers have failed to honour their initial promise (a 
.pdf will always be viewable in any reader, unsopported features will 
be ignored --- PA puts a spot colour in their tax form .pdfs so they 
wouldn't open up in pdf viewers on my NeXT Cube).

What was really scary were .pdfs declassified by whiting out using a 
box drawn in Acrobat (not deleting) names &c.

That said, it's nowhere near as funny as Penn Jillette's bit on 
Wingdings, which is classic:

http://pennandteller.com/sincity/penn-n-teller/pcc/wingding.html

William

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