On 6/25/07, Jim Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Clearly, Jean, those are irrefutable statements. However, I still don't see how a PDF on an OOo CD (or for an OOo user) does anything that a native OOo document does not do at least as well (except, of course, increase Adobe's dominance). Further, the OOo files (and many other standard formats) have the huge advantage of editability (e.g. changing font size then printing for readers with vision impairment) with free tools. Of course, this requires that there is available at least one workstation that can read the OOo installation instructions. For the case where this is not true, the installation instructions (only) could be in PDF (or text/Unicode, or ODF, or even M$ Word .doc) so they could be read (and even edited), again with free tools, before OOo is installed. Did I miss a communication explaining any advantages of PDF?
I'd argue that PDF has very significant disadvantages, with difficulty editing being right at the top of the list. In my mind, documentation is less than optimal if it can't easily be edited by the user.
