{"id":306,"date":"2006-09-28T12:15:55","date_gmt":"2006-09-28T17:15:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:15:55","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T17:15:55","slug":"ouch-i-just-shot-myself-in-the-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;ouch!  I just shot myself in the foot&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That must have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/aboutadobe\/pressroom\/executivebios\/brucechizen.html\" title=\"Bruce Chizen's\">Bruce Chizen&#8217;s<\/a> reaction four months ago when he found out the crack legal team at Adobe decided to sue Microsoft for including the export to PDF function in Office 2007 Beta.  As a result Microsoft has removed this function entirely from Office 2007.  However, you can still do it by downloading a plug-in (thank god!). <\/p>\n<p>Adobe has long touted PDF as the &#8220;standard&#8221; for web documents.  I guess Adobe didn&#8217;t look up the definition of &#8220;standard&#8221; in the dictionary.<\/p>\n<p>For those unfamiliar here is the definition of &#8220;standard&#8221;:  Commonly used or supplied<\/p>\n<p>Adobe is capitalizing on the fact that it says &#8220;or&#8221; instead of &#8220;and.&#8221;   If you want your file-type to be the standard you can&#8217;t start suing people for trying to propagate its use.  Imagine if Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders started suing everyone who used Arial type-face on their website.  They&#8217;d eclipse the wealth of Bill Gates.  I guess the aquisition of Macromedia went to the big A&#8217;s head.  Talk about the real King of all Media.  <\/p>\n<p>See original article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dmxzone.com\/ShowDetail.asp?NewsId=12026\" title=\"here\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That must have been Bruce Chizen&#8217;s reaction four months ago when he found out the crack legal team at Adobe decided to sue Microsoft for including the export to PDF function in Office 2007 Beta. As a result Microsoft has removed this function entirely from Office 2007. However, you can still do it by downloading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}