> Michael Lake wrote:
>
> Very different experience here with PDF. I have a colleauge
> (must get a dict on this Linux box) who sends stuff to me
> with PDF and he is still trying to get the fonts right.
> Views fine on is machine but my machine does not have the
> fonts and his Word Perfect will not embed the fonts in the
> PDF as they are licenced.
That's a fault on Word Perfect's part, rather than PDF. Fonts are fairly
well-protected in PDFs, especially if you embed subsets, so it sounds like
Word Perfect is being silly.
I use PDFs almost exclusively for print-publishing work, and couldn't do
without them... Seeing that his WP doesn't implement it too nicely, he
should probably get Adobe Acrobat for the Distiller. Then he can just 'print
to PDF'.
> Views and prints shitty. Next I need to extract text from
> the PDF to get that info up onto a web site. No luck -
> strings a PDF and you can't get the text. Its compressed.
> Can't cut and paste from screen either.
Sounds like a client problem. :)
> I can't use the marvellous psutils to repaginate it, resize
> it, turn it to ASCII etc.
PDF4 is going to solve some of those problems, but for the most part it's a
lack of tools. PostScript has been around for much longer than PDF.
> Why didn't Adobe just add gz compression, encryption and
> string searching to the PS standard?
Because PDF solves many other problems, and... well... They had to sell
something! ;)
- Jeff
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