Re: Digital Whisper issue #1

Dotan Cohen <[email protected]> Sun, 4 Oct 2009 13:09:51 +0200
Newsgroups	gmane.culture.hackers.israel
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> 1. Why are the articles in PDF format? PDF suffers from poor accessibility,
> inconvenience, low ability to be hacked and re-used, and other problems.
> I don't have a PDF viewer configured in my browser, and when clicking on the
> link, one of them was downloaded to my hard-disk, and I am too inconvenienced
> to open it using a PDF viewer.
>

I actually think that PDF is great. It is freely available, preserves
formatting across OS / applications, and is contained in a single file
([X]HTML is not). Is is searchable and the text is extractable. Is is
also accessible to the disabled, though Linux support for that feature
may be missing (a problem with Linux applications, not with PDF
itself). There are RTL issues with PDF though.


>> If anyone is willing to contribute, submit an article or give a feedback,
>> contact Digital Whisper crew here - [email protected]
>>
>

When I get around to it!

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Dotan Cohen

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                  <p>&gt; 1. Why are the articles in PDF format? PDF suffers from poor accessibility,<br>
&gt; inconvenience, low ability to be hacked and re-used, and other problems.<br>
&gt; I don't have a PDF viewer configured in my browser, and when clicking on the<br>
&gt; link, one of them was downloaded to my hard-disk, and I am too inconvenienced<br>
&gt; to open it using a PDF viewer.<br>
&gt;<br>
<br>
I actually think that PDF is great. It is freely available, preserves<br>
formatting across OS / applications, and is contained in a single file<br>
([X]HTML is not). Is is searchable and the text is extractable. Is is<br>
also accessible to the disabled, though Linux support for that feature<br>
may be missing (a problem with Linux applications, not with PDF<br>
itself). There are RTL issues with PDF though.<br>
<br>
&gt;&gt; If anyone is willing to contribute, submit an article or give a feedback,<br>
&gt;&gt; contact Digital Whisper crew here - <a href="mailto:editor%40digitalwhisper.co.il">editor@digitalwhisp<wbr>er.co.il</a><br>
&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
<br>
When I get around to it!<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Dotan Cohen<br>
<br>
<a href="http://what-is-what.com">http://what-<wbr>is-what.com</a><br>
<a href="http://gibberish.co.il">http://gibberish.<wbr>co.il</a><br>
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