>>15
PDFs have annoyed me every time. Every time I'm offered a PDF I refuse if I can, and use Google or pdftotext or something if I can before KPDF or FoxIt Reader, because a PDF file means useless read-only shit (hardly copypasta, don't think about vector data), pages in my screen, and forced retarded styles up my ass.
>>17
has only ever used Acrobat
I never use that piece of shit; like I said, I'd kill myself if I had to use that. I use KPDF on Lunix and FoxIt Reader on Windows.
thinks webpages are how business documents and scientific articles are published
I prefer text/plain. If that's not possible, I'll take text/html, possibly after converstion from TeX. Then perhaps I'd even take CHM if it's for Windows. But everything else tends to disgust me. I prefer DOCs to PDFs though; at least I can do something useful from the DOCs.
has never done any kind of serious typesetting
I've done serious text editing and manipulation. In fact, that's a good part of my job and spare time entertainment. I handle large collections of files, non-text as well. I treat them equal. I view them however I please. I modify whatever I want.
If I typeset a document and send it to you, I want it to look THE WAY I INTENDED.
Well then, fuck you sir. Once the file enters my computer, I view it THE WAY I WANT because it's my fucking file. I went as hard as writing specific CSS to force on web sights I frequent whose styles I don't like for some reason (like gay white background when I need to look at it for hours (lol it looks like paper lol lol easy easy luser luser)).
I don't want you to be able to change the font
But I do, because it's my file. You cannot restrict how I use it. I may very well print an hex dump of it on toilet paper and wipe my ass with it. Or I could use it as the seed for pseudo-random number generators. Who are you to tell me how should I handle octet-streams residing in my computer? It's MY fucking machine, not yours, and they are MY letters on MY screen. Stop choosing for me.
If you decide to print it, I want it to look EXACTLY as it would if anyone else printed it
I don't print shit. I use my screen, it's bigger than A4 sheets, and I prefer leaves on trees to sheets on my desk. Plus they take space. And I can't find with regular expressions. And they are paged. And they break. And they are expensive. And they cannot be modified easily. Not even copypasta. Ugh, paper sucks! Who'd want something printed?