Re: HELMETS!!!

Bill Zaumen wrote:
> norman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Norman Wilson) writes:
> 
>> Bill Z. <nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>:
>>> There is an RFC describing the PDF format.  Adobe is going around
>>> modifying it for business reasons, and those changes are not in
>>> the standard.   Is it any surprise that something doesn't work
>>> when you aren't using Adobe products?
>> Can you cite the RFC number?  The nearest I can find is RFC
>> 3778, which is by no means a full description of the format;
>> rather it offers a few notes on usage and a pointer to the
>> separately-published (by Adobe, not by the IETF) PDF Reference
>> Manuals.
> 
> That's the one - but keep in mind the title: "The application/pdf
> Media Type", and that it states
> 
>         This do***ent is intended to provide updated information on
>         the registration of the MIME Media Type "application/pdf",
>         with particular focus on the features that help mitigate
>         security concerns.  This do***ent refers to features
>         do***ented in the PDF References versions 1 [1], 1.3 [2], 1.4
>         [3] and 1.5 [4], as updated by errata [5].
> 
> where the citations are to specific do***ents published by Adobe.
> They just didn't go to the trouble of copying the existing Adobe
> do***ents into the RFC verbatim - a waste of effort.
> 
> You can't expect software developers to figure out what to do with
> a MIME type of the specification of that type can be changed at
> will without updating the specification for what that MIME type
> represents.
> 
> Sherman was complaining about what my software was doing - and that
> software apparently worked correctly - it found an application that
> could handle the MIME type defined in RFC 3778.  It's just that the
> do***ent format  did not match the MIME type.
> 
Nonsense. I am not complaining about Zaumen's software, since I could 
care less what it does and what is does not.

Zaumen when off and falsely accused me of inventing things because his 
software could not view a web page but mine could. I believe I am owed 
an apology on this matter.

-- 
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
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