On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > > Do this as an experiement. Print out western.pdf > > from whatever different tools you have that can do so. > > (I used Acroreader 4.0 and xpdf-0.91-1.6x) > > The resulting documents aren't "identical" but they > > are close enough that you have to look twice to see > > the differences. > > You have just proven my point. > > The contention which was made by Bastiaan was...... > >> In this case I can be absolutely sure > >> that my recipient can view or print them exactly the way I intended to. > > The key words are... > "absolutly sure" and "view or print them exactly the way I intended" > > My point is that they are not "exactly" the way as intended. > (CLOSE perhaps.... but not EXACT)
In my view the key words are "as intended." A fax isn't an EXACT copy. Even a Xerox isn't an EXACT copy. However they are certainly close enough that they fall within "exactly as intended." 99.99% of the time a pdf will also be rendered "exactly as intended," which isn't to say a pixel-for- pixel reproduction (because then we'd be back into the realm of graphics), but close enough that the author will say, "Yes, that looks as I intended it to." ... but then, I suppose we should let Bastiaan clarify what he meant. ;-) - Steve
