RE: Acrobat 5

[Scott Turner <sturner@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Note the total lack of mention of support for **ANY** UNIX-based
>operating system!  This leaves users of the following OSes out
>in the cold:
>- Solaris
>- Linux (any flavor)
>- BSD (any flavor)
>
>Mac OS X ships in 12 days, and Adobe can't commit to it for *next quarter*.
>Contrast this with a number of other graphics software companies, who are
>making beta versions of their software for OS X available already....
>
>If Adobe isn't careful, the Acrobat 5 upgrade is going to be about as
>popular
>as the WindMillEd upgrade.
>
>We've got the OS X public beta on one of the Macs at home, and *even in its
>beta stage*, it's more stable than any version of Windows I've seen in the
>last eight years.
>
>Once OS X ships, I'm not buying ANY Mac software that won't run native
>under OS X.
>


And to add to this, why is Adobe mimicing the Microsoft Office suite 
interface? It has to be one of the worst interfaces designed. The 
worst software interface design award goes to Lotus cc:Mail. For the 
Windows side it was as if some software engineer heard that icons 
were "good," and put icons everywhere for everything.

Are we to expect that everything in Acrobat 5 will be buried three to 
four levels deep?

Dov, considering that I have no way to see this interface at the 
moment, could you comment on it?

Scott

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