We use PDF (which we may switch to PDF/A over time) to deliver content on our "Katrina's Jewish Voices" site (http://katrina.jwa.org/ ). This is an "online collecting" site where people can contribute any digital object in whatever form is convenient. If the item is a Word document, or any of several other formats, we convert to PDF. This has somewhat to do with security - PDFs are less easy to modify (we don't lock the files currently, so I don't want to overstate this benefit), somewhat to do with long-term preservation (hence the impending switch to PDF/A), and somewhat to do with wanting to do the best we can at recreating the intended environment (not that we necessarily have the fonts) and providing a consistent view of the object to site visitors.
ari On 2/22/07, M. Elings <melings at library.berkeley.edu> wrote: > > I am interesting in knowing if anyone out there is using pdf and/or pdf-A > to delivery digital content to web visitors, or for any other application. > >
