Al said:
Shows how much I know about Windows. You're right. I retract all my
previous posts on this subject.
1) You can't edit all .doc files in freeware products.
True, but you can't open and edit any .pdf files in any freeware product
that I'm aware of.
2) You can't easily edit all XML files in freeware.
OpenOffice.org opens them fairly well, and also allows you to edit them.
Maybe not all of them, but very few documents (at least the ones that
I'm interested in) are distributed in that format.
3) I thought your complaint was AcroRd opening on a single click
Yes, that's one of my complaints and we seem to have totally gotten off
of that subject. Besides, why should I be limited to only one complaint?
I have others about both Acrobat Reader and the .pdf file format, but
won't go into them here.
not that editing a .pdf costs money (which it doesn't,
I never said that the actual editing costs money. How could it, if you
were the one doing it? What costs money is the program that enables you
to do the editing.
it's just not easy to do it free).
No, it's not just "not easy", it's impossible. If you know of a freeware
that can open .pdf files and edit them, please fill me in on a link to it.
4) There are many file formats you can't edit successfully without a
paid product.
However, they're probably not file formats that are used to distribute
any documents I'm interested in, otherwise I would be able to name one
and I can't.
Look Al, this is going nowhere. I don't even know what point you're
trying to make other than that my points are invalid, and you are doing
a poor job of that. As far as this discussion is concerned, I'm out of here.
OAO.
--
Regards from John Corliss
I don't reply to trolls like Andy Mabbett, Doc (who uses sock puppets)
or Roger Johansson, for instance. No adware, cdware, commercial
software, crippleware, demoware, nagware, PROmotionware, shareware,
spyware, time-limited software, trialware, viruses or warez for me, please.