From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,666bab5bfbdf30c2 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!193.252.117.184.MISMATCH!feeder.news.orange.fr!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4D2D7602.2090101@obry.net> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:36:02 +0100 From: Pascal Obry Organization: Home - http://www.obry.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; fr-FR; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090605 Thunderbird/2.0.0.22 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada To: Adam Beneschan Subject: Re: Generating PDFs with Ada References: <4d2908c7$0$22120$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> <9f23e50a-2c2c-4ccc-bd56-f6ffdc6c7ee7@37g2000prx.googlegroups.com> <82aaj73jsr.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <9600f7e1-496b-4232-a5b8-50bc97d8dd7a@g26g2000vbi.googlegroups.com> <87tyhfgu5y.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Jan 2011 10:35:59 CET NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.124.197.50 X-Trace: 1294824959 reader.news.orange.fr 7685 82.124.197.50:8643 X-Complaints-To: abuse@orange.fr Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:17359 Date: 2011-01-12T10:35:59+01:00 List-Id: Adam, I think Ludivic concerns are not in the tool itself but the data. I was a Windows user, I want to use the best tool to do the job (being free or propietary - I paid for Lightroom as there is no equivalent in the Open Source domain at the moment). As I said no problem. But when I have the choice I won't be using a tool that also makes all my data proprietary. The data are mine, why should I pay year after year to be able to use them? I've spent hours on typing guitar partitions, the tools is not there anymore, I've lost everything (true story), I had made many documents using Word hopefully there is some free tool to read this format otherwise I would have lost everything too. Likewise with Excel, I've also lost genealogy work done on a proprietary tool... I won't even try to count how many hours I've lost with all those tools :( Let's take Lightroom that I'm using at the moment. The data to develop the photos are so tied to Lightroom that I will probably have to keep Lightroom forever :( I know but today I have no choice, it is a shame but I need to get the job done... So all in all I fully agree with Ludovic, be sure to use, whenever it is possible, free and standard formats. Pascal. -- --|------------------------------------------------------ --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member --| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE --|------------------------------------------------------ --| http://www.obry.net - http://v2p.fr.eu.org --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination" --| --| gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-key F949BD3B