james_morton

More likely the hacks are there because requirements changed and the software wasn't initially built to be flexible enough to support change.

A rewrite will solve it in the short term - until requirements change again.

However, I would much rather apply the new 'hacks' onto the rewritten 10 line function than figure out the original 200 line behemoth.

PDF was made for printing, not displaying. As someone who has been in the printing business for a long time, PDF was a god send, no more worrying about missing fonts, no more page margin differences, no more driver discrepancies.

What you see is what you get, wherever you open it, wherever you print it, that is huge.

Once cyber crime + fraud becomes more commonplace I envision security programmers replacing lawyers.