On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 01:08:43AM +0200, Michelle Konzack uttered: > Hello Steve Fishpaste, > > Am 2010-05-14 18:48:21, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > > There are some printers that use GNU/FLOSS to you know. 8) Got to be > > careful being so inclusive. There are many uses for PDFs other than > > for archival purposes. Printers for example take PDFs and often need to > > 'edit' > > them. That's where the original idea to have a PDF editor originated. > > For WHAT reason a printer need to EDIT a PDF?
To edit it of course! That's why many printers have prepress departments. PDFs were originally used in the publishing world exclusively. Many times designers make mistakes that need to be corrected before going on press or there are simply edits to be made to information that has changed prior to press time. It's done all the time! Same with CAD drawings that have to be annotated and signed off on, and or any document workflow where documents are "proofed" and annotated. PDFs are used because it's a package container with the fonts and images included, not because it's considered an end use format. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
