Acrobat Gets Multimedia Makeover

Now you have added a lot of earrings, noserings, and liprings, wearing a fancy wig, painted your teeth green., and changed your nickname to Acrofat.

"Acrobat's familiar PDF format has long allowed Net users to create and distribute forms, documents, and other publications that don't translate well into ordinary Web pages."

...sounds like a nice road map to obsolescence...

"No (software program) is an island." - John Donne (if he was alive today)

And I thought that the acrobat reader 8 was bloatware. This one is going to be as bad as a Microsoft product. It is unfortunate that it will be unusable for print material now.

Seriously guys...this makes a lot of sense. Adobe Reader truly does render documents as intended without compromising formatting or quality. In addition, authors who publish in PDF are able to control the way their work is viewed and used. Why do you think PDF so popular??

Anyways, the idea of bringing together, the various forms of information (text, images, audio and videos) into a single package is truly brilliant!!! I'd say it's about time!!

Consider this: With books, you've got text and some pictures; With the radio, you've got audio only; With television, you've got video only; With the Internet, you've got everything (text, pictures, audio, video) except that these mostly exist seperately in a multitude of formats, many of which may not be supported by your OS. Now, consider a scenario where these various forms of information are harmonized into a single ubiqitous format such as the PDF.

Authors would finally be able to express their ideas clearly using their preferred information format or a combination of formats all entrained in a single package that is sure to deliver uncompromised output irrespective of the platform on which it is viewed or used.

C'mon...isn't this expected, where these various forms of media would converge into a single entity. Current trends in technology clearly supports this: faster & cheapers processors, larger, compact & more affordable storage devices and highspeed internet suggests that this is clearly feasible.

I really do think that this is a great step for the PDF!