On 3 July 2016 at 18:35, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > I can understand the move away from BookManager (as much as some of us loved > it). It was a proprietary > technology and I am sure expensive to maintain.
I bet if IBM open-sourced Book Manager, or at least the ,BOO data formats, it would get a lot better. Surely they aren't still making money by selling that technology? > But PDF is an industry standard. The technology is maintained by Adobe. The problem I have is that IBM seems to be in bed with Adobe, and depends on their specific implementation of PDF viewing capability. Sort of like companies used to require Internet Explorer for their web pages. I don't use the Adobe reader (I find it is ever more slow, bloated, and bug-riddled), but some of the light weight and much faster readers don't work with the IBM Adobe-proprietary index scheme. I have asked IBM to not require Adobe's reader, and they don't seem interested. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
