[OT?] US & CA govt use of PDF fill-in forms

[Mahesh T. Pai]

Ihab A.B. Awad said on Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 07:37:06PM -0700,:

 > Should  the government  be thereby  institutionalizing  this format
 > (Adobe Acrobat PDF)  to the benefit of the  one corporation (Adobe)
 > that provides  tools to properly  edit it? Or  is this okay?  Or is
 > there an alternative tool for  editing and saving PDFs of which I'm
 > not yet aware?

FSF India says the government should not use  the portable document
format. See http://www.gnu.org.in/philosophy/mitrules.html
 

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