Michael Lake wrote:
Phil Scarratt wrote:
"PDF documents provide a great way to pass around documents on the Internet. They have many uses, such as sending quotes and invoices to business clients. Two of the main reasons the PDF format is so popular is that it preserves all of the document's formatting exactly and it is easily viewable on almost all platforms.
I realise that Phil is quoting from Adobes guff but I can't resist winging to people that sometimes PDF does not preserve all of the document's formatting exactly.
Actually, it's from the article on LinuxGazette at the other end of the link in the original msg. Nevertheless, I do agree - PDF does not always preserve formatting, although it's a darn site better than other document formats, and the reader is chunky and getting chunkier. It is also somewhat of a "standard" unfortunately....
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