On Sun, 08 Apr 2018 20:12:49 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 09 Apr 2018 00:36:23 +0100, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:

On Mon, 09 Apr 2018 00:28:13 +0100, wrote:

On Sun, 08 Apr 2018 19:14:13 +0100, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:

On Sun, 08 Apr 2018 16:49:07 +0100, wrote:

On Sun, 08 Apr 2018 14:25:25 +0100, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:

On Sun, 08 Apr 2018 02:22:25 +0100, wrote:


Not when they appear in a PDF.
Most new PDFs can be lit up and exported as a text file.
There are also plenty of tables on web pages and clipped from books
that are not CSV

PDF is one of the most stupidest inventions ever made.

It does seem to be the standard way to move documents around

Not really. A few websites seem to use it, but most just use Word docs.

Not true at all. To start with Microsoft does not have a free DOCX
viewer.

Everybody has the ability to view word docs. Wordpad will read them, Openoffice will read them. You're not very knowledgeable are you?


It depends on your OS now doesn't it?
Adobe works over a number of platforms.

It doesn't matter. He's as wrong as wrong can be. PDF *is*
universal.

and Adobe
makes sure you need the premium package to do much more than look at
them. Giving away the reader for free was a pretty good business
model tho.

No, it just irritated everyone providing documents that were difficult to edit or copy stuff from.

You can copy most PDFs unless the author restricted them and some even
allow you to fill fields. The tax forms from IRS work that way. You
can fill them out using nothing but the free "reader".

Never seems to work for me. Especially with Adobe's piece of **** READER, which is for READING only. Why do you think there are so many freeware PDF programs? Even using those, trying to fill out a PDF form is like going back to the 70s and using a typewriter to add numbers in the blank spaces. What's wrong with a normal word processing document?

Now who is not very smart?

Bingo!