>>5
Why do you fuck your customers like that? If I were your customer I'd be very angry. I want text/plain; if you need rich text, text/html. Hell, I'll even take Word (ugh) before PDF. At least I can modify Word.
As for the latest PDF reader, cat shit vs. dog shit.
>>6-7
Yes, proprietary. Adobe can change it anytime without consensus. Ugly size means PDFs are hueg. Good viewers? I haven't seen any. KPDF and FoxIt Reader do what they can, but I wouldn't call that good viewer. Good viewer means it loads before my penis gets hard at Asian girls, it takes less RAM than Windows Calculator, it searches regular expressions, and most of all, it allows me to copy and paste contents properly, i.e. to do something useful out of my files.
PDFs support shitty DRM and shitty ActionScript and shitty Adobe shit. My web browser is far more user-friendly. Not only better to use. I meant user-friendly in the broadest sense of the word. My HTML browser is on my side. It will allow me to override creators' stupidity and it won't do whatever I don't like done in my computer. PDFs force stupid fonts and colours up my arse. And pages are backwards, retarded and inconvenient. We overcame pages (a natural limitation of paper) when we invented continuous buffers and scrollbars. Text flows normally, there's no need to lay gay shit out, etc. I only use paper to wipe my ass; for everything else I have a computer screen.
So now it's an "electronic document", huh? How fucking nice. Well sir, my files are not "electronic documents to browse on my digital lifestyle hub" or "licensed digital music to listen in my personal portable music pod". All of my files are octet-streams I want to treat and modify in any way I like. I don't need any faggot designer, any faggot browser, and much less any faggot Adobe telling me what I can do and how I can use my files. If somebody wants to give me text, they should give me text. Preferrably in a standard Unicode Transformation Format. For rich text, I'll accept W3C standards, even if they could be improved. But I won't take any shit I can't modify into something decent for my personal use. I won't take any shit that will force artificial restrictions on me, such as pages on a screen, and I won't take any shit that will not allow me to do something useful from it by means of transformating or reusing its contents.