From: "M. Fioretti" <[email protected]>
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 17:00:50 PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
Larry Gusaas wrote:
Why would your want to get rid of PDF's. I DO NOT want to publish
documents in ODF formats? I use read only PDF's.
Larry, may I ask you why you specifically used "DO NOT want" in the
sentence above, instead of "do not need" or something like that? I'm
curious, also for the reasons in my comments below.
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 17:00:50 PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
Published documents should be PDF or epub. PDF is useful when you
want to maintain control over the layout.
Hmm, not exactly. PDF is little more than a photograph of the
_printable_ version of a document (or a video, in some cases). As
such, it is useful when you want, or need, or it's enough, that the
"exterior" parts of a document _can_ always have exactly the same look
on every monitor, or however they are printed.
That's NOT etirely true.
For example I can attach "notes" to a given paragraph.
I can create an editable PDF Form such that you can file in form fields
(where JavaScript can manipulate and/or calculate field) as well as save
data to the form. This includes including a PKI signing field for
verification and non-repudiation.
So describing a PDF as a snapshot or photograph is denying the breadth of
what a PDF is capable of.
And to stay on topic, AOO can be used to create editble PDF forms.
--
Dave
Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk
http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
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