At 13:21 -0500 1998/12/18, Y&Y, Inc. wrote:
>>As far as I know, it was not the problem of the MacOS version of Acrobat,
>>which seemed to work just fine, but the incompatibility between the
>>QuickDraw and PS systems.
>
>This is more a statement of some user or some application not knowing
>what they are doing.  The general assumption being that you need to know
>nothing about Acrobat before using it.  It requires some knowledge,
>just as with PostScript.  And with sufficient knowledge you can produce
>fairly robust output in either formats.

When I say it has nothing with Acrobat to do, it is because Acrobat never
was involved. The files produced by a conversion program were corrupted
simply. This does not happen because there is anything inherently wrong
with the file formats, but because the companies developing this (in this
case Apple and Acrobat) do not have any strong self-interest to make it not
happen: Often the opposite is true, one has the local formats and programs,
and one tries to help users into that environment, but if other
incompatibilities happen that is often an advantage to the company. I mean
this is just a fact to the whole computer industry, so I do not understand
people here try to claim anything otherwise.

  Hans Aberg
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