. the Aphelion .. » windows http://ish.kodzilla.org/blog Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:47:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Adobe’s way http://ish.kodzilla.org/blog/archives/192 http://ish.kodzilla.org/blog/archives/192#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:35:07 +0000 işbaran http://ish.kodzilla.org/blog/?p=192 Have you ever wondered what you need to read a PDF file on Windows ? I know you’re happy on your Linux box doing everything with a few steps, installing applications from your super large repos .. but here’s what i did tonight to read a simple pdf file, costing me 20 minutes and pain.

I knew that the pdf reader thing is “Adobe Reader”, so googled “adobe reader download” which led me to adobe’s site. After clicking “download” button, web site started to install a Firefox plugin (!) “the adobe downloader !”. After installing and restarting firefox, download started on a fancy window, it was a 40MB file which after the download was extracted ! and windows started to configure! the reader after extract, all in the slowest way you could imagine .. And for what ? For reading a N kb file, or picture, or something.

I wouldn’t dare to install this stupid app if only the open source alternatives (on windows of course) had some sense of esthetics, that fonts wouldn’t look like lines we drew in elementary school .. I dont know whats the problem of all these developers, are you trying to put an alternative or have lots of time and decided to write a pdf reader in it ?

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