PDF and the web

[William Shipley]

Yup, OmniPDF a foundation app.  It requires 3.3 or EOF or you to somehow  
have foundation installed.

I'm sorry, but the benifits of foundation are just too great to resist.  I  
know 3.3 seems like a not-so-featureful upgrade to users, but for  
programmers it's a complete godsend.  I strongly advise everyone to upgrade  
now so they aren't stuck with old, outdated software.

In addition, it'll be an order of magnitude easier for developers to  
upgrade foundation apps to OpenStep.  (Days instead of weeks, according to  
our sources).  Thus, we feel that writing new apps without foundation is  
betting on the past rather than the future.  With OpenStep/4.0 running on  
potentially thousands of times the seats of 3.2, I don't feel this is a good  
bet.

Omni will not be developing any more apps that run without foundation.   
(Well, unless someone gives us a skillion dollars.)

-Wil

PS: This is a point on which I have no flexibility.  It's one thing to say  
we should support black hardware because those were the early users and they  
shouldn't be punished for being first: I totally agree with that sentiment  
and I will ensure all Omni apps run on black hardware as long as there is a  
compiler for it.  But when people tell us they aren't going to spend their  
money to upgrade so we should spend a lot more of our time and money  
developing software to support outdated systems... well, if I wanted to do  
that, I'd be a Windows programmer.